Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] monitoring on switches

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Managed switches usually have a span port that gets a copy of all
> messages across all the ports, or you can put a hub between one switch
> and another to get all the traffic going to the server/firewall/whatever

See

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fEthernet

for a discussion of this on Ethernet, and

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fTokenRing

for some similar information for Token Ring.

See

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/SwitchReference

for information about span/mirror/etc. ports on various switch models 
(or pointers to that information) - note that not all switches, 
especially low-end ones, support this - and see

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/HubReference

for information about hubs - note that some "hubs" are actually switches.

See also

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q5.1

which is the Ethereal FAQ item on this - it refers to the Wiki sections.