![]() ![]() When you plug a sniffer in to a port on a switch, you can only see broadcast traffic and the traffic transmitted and received by your machine. As most of you know now however, the advent of switched networks prevents this. ![]() In the grand ole days of packet analysis when everybody used hubs you could plug in and sniff all of the traffic on a network segment. In fact, it is sometimes more difficult to place a packet sniffer on a network’s cabling system than it is to actually analyze the packets. Unfortunately, sniffing packets isn’t always as easy as plugging into an open port and firing up Wireshark. ![]()
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