Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] non-switching ethernet hub

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> As hubs are simply "plug in cable and go on", I don't think we need a
> list of hubs, as all hubs will do the capturing job, it's their job by
> definition :-)
>
> Or am I missing something here?

One problem is, I think, that not all devices with "hub" in the name are 
really hubs - I think they're often really low-end switches ("switching 
hubs").