Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Capture hardware

From: "Sheahan, John" <John.Sheahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:39:29 -0400

Netscout makes probes that can be purchased but they are expensive as is
the software required to run them.
I would think that a very small laptop could be used if you span the
port/vlan you need.

john


 

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[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laurent
Chouinard
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:36 PM
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Capture hardware

Hi,

I need to capture the network data at one of my customer's location, but
big laptops with power supplies, hubs, cables and everything else
required to get a wireshark capture going is kind of a difficult problem
physically.

So I ask: Is there any hardware product whose sole purpose is to receive
an ethernet cable and record everything internally? I would leave that
device for a few days, then collect it, extract the data, and run my
analysis through Wireshark.

So far the closest thing I found is a hardware data logger that is more
of an electrical level logger to record actual electrical interferences
into the signal than the ethernet frames. Me, I just need to record the
ethernet frames so that I know what my device receives and what it
transmits.

Thanks,

Laurent
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