Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] looking to make passive tap

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crowe, Graham GP wrote:

> I had a similar problem and ended up buying the proper tap. I would
> highly recommend it for layer 1 problems (ones which the switch filters
> out for you). Within 30 seconds of installing the tap we had figured out
> a problem that had been plaguing us for months.
>
> I would be very wary of the cheap version of the tap shown on the
> snort page, it breaks the ethernet standard and could seriously degrade
> your connection.

You might want to

	1) update the Ethereal Wiki to note this

and

	2) note this to the Snort developers

if the problems aren't theoretical.