I contacted Chris off-line yesterday and took him up on his kind offer (below).
Thanks again Chris! And thanks everyone who offered advice. On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 1:55:55 PM UTC-5, chris.mcquistion wrote: > > Dave, if you want a 12 port Cisco Catalyst 100 Mbit switch, let me know. > > I don't know the first thing about configuring a Cisco switch for port > mirroring but I do know it is possible. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af4d_fAkwAY > > *Chris McQuistion* > > Director of Information Technology > > Currey Ingram Academy > > 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 > > *o* 615.507.3175 *c* 615.525.5877 > > www.curreyingram.org > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 1:52 PM Dave Manginelli <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yes, that's what I want to do, Howard. >> >> I can monitor the traffic if it hits my NIC but right now my entire >> network is switched so no traffic goes to the machine I would monitor from. >> >> When I wrote the message I didn't think I had any Ethernet HUBS (as >> opposed to switches) still lying around but I've just come from digging >> through some dusty old storage boxes and I came up with a couple 10Mb >> switches. Unfortunately they were somehow separated from their wall warts >> so I still have to dig up a couple of those. >> >> Question: I know I said I could use a 10Mb switch but it occurs to me >> that everything in my network is currently 100/1000 Base T. Will devices >> that claim 100/1000 Base T compatibility talk to 10Mb devices? If not, I >> would have to come up with a real Rube Goldberg setup to make it all work >> (I do have at least one old 10/100 switch but I would need two and the >> setup would get crazy). >> >> Finally, I know an option would be to throw a second NIC in the >> monitoring machine and use it as a gateway so it could monitor the traffic. >> That seemed like a lot of work before but right now it seems pretty >> attractive! >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Howard White <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Run wireshark and watch the traffic? >>> >>> Howard >>> >>> On 06/29/2018 11:49 AM, Dave Manginelli wrote: >>> >>>> My current gig involves testing an IOT device that likes to "phone >>>> home" and it would be much easier for me if I could easily monitor the >>>> traffic. Does anybody have a managed switch they can loan (or give!) me? >>>> >>>> An old 10Mb switch is OK if I can just set it to echo the traffic to >>>> more than one output port. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> <javascript:> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] <javascript:> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:> <mailto: >>>> [email protected] <javascript:>>. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <javascript:> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] <javascript:> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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