Re: How to Sniff my Linksys Router Traffic
From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 01/15/05
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:57:14 -0500
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:41:34 -0500, Triffid spoketh
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>Billy wrote:
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>> I want to sniff my Linksys Router Traffic to detect information that the
>> clients on my LAN are passing.
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>> I tried several freeware and trial s/w tools with no success. None seem to
>> be able to detect information passing through the linsys router/gateway,
>> only through network adapters on LAN clients.
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>That's because the Linksys router/gateway is also a 4-port switch -
>traffic from other systems isn't sent on your wire, so you can't sniff it.
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That is very true.
The only way to "fix" this is to either:
A) buy a hub and connect everyone to that, then the sniffer will work,
or,
b) buy a managed switch, and do as in A. Then you can turn on/off port
monitoring so you can sniff out traffic to/from only specified ports and
only when needed...
Lars M. Hansen
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