Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Managed switch and ethereal

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

David DuPre wrote:
> Yes.  "Port Mirroring" or "Port Spanning".
> One or the other will get it.

...at lest for Dell; if it's 3Com, apparently it's the "Roving Analysis 
Port":

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/SwitchReference_2f3Com

and if it's Cisco, it's "Switched Port Analyzer" or "SPAN":

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/SwitchReference_2fCiscoSystems

The top level page:

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/SwitchReference

has links to pages for other vendors, and "stub" links to 
not-yet-created pages for still other vendors.  If your switch isn't 
listed, check the documentation for the switch, and update the Wiki....