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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Looking for a portable sniffing-friendlyhub/switch

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:02:28 +0200
On 20 mei 2010, at 10:44, RUOFF, LARS (LARS)** CTR ** wrote:

> Yes, indeed, forgot to mention that and that's what can be considered a serious drawback. Only a Windows configuration utility is shipped and I haven't yet found out how to configure the switch otherwise.

Bummer... as I have become a Mac user... Hopefully the configuration utility works from within a Windows VM :-)

> A simple http://[address] or telnet [address] yields no success.
> The manual doesn't mention anything of that sort either.

Hmmm.... have you captured the configuration traffic generated by the configuration utility? ;-)

> Another thing that would have made it perfect would have been PoE.
> To be clear: It does NOT provide PoE.

For a nice PoE capable mirroring switch, have a look at Betty's post on LMT:

http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2010/04/review-of-dualcomm-5-port-pass-through-port-mirroring-switch-by-betty-dubois.html

Cheers,


Sake