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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Port Monitoring

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:29:08 -0700

On May 3, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Rohan Solanki wrote:

From earlier posts i found that you can monitor a router by configuring it or through a switch using port monitoring. In port monitoring a switch, how can i configure wireshark to monitor a specific port?

The correct question is not "how can I configure Wireshark to monitor a specific port?", it's "how can I configure the switch to allow a network analyzer, such as Wireshark, to monitor a specific port?"

Given that, see

	http://wiki.wireshark.org/SwitchReference