[AusNOG] USB-powered switch +mirror

[Ian Henderson]

Craig Meyers wrote on 2009-01-07:

> Does anyone know if there is a device available that could be powered
> say buy USB port on a laptop that would have a small amount of RJ45
> ethernet ports that would act as a switch, and one port being able to
> mirror an ethernet port. The idea being, for it to be used for customer
> site to do an on-the-spot port mirror for packet captures etc..

I haven't tried it, but maybe you could create a bridge between the laptop's onboard Ethernet and a PCMCIA card Ethernet, then analyse the traffic going through them?

Rgds,



- I.

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Ian Henderson, CCIE #14721
Senior Network Engineer, iiNet Limited