[PLUG] Network Printer Debugging

[Galen Seitz]

Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "Galen" == Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> writes:
> 
> Galen> Perhaps this is obvious to you, but if you are trying to sniff
> Galen> network traffic between your XP laptop and the printer using a
> Galen> third machine, you will need to use a hub rather than a switch.
> Galen> Some switches have a port mirroring feature to deal with this,
> Galen> but mirroring isn't typically available on consumer level
> Galen> switches.
> 
> One other possibility that just occurred to me would be for the third
> machine to have two ethernet ports bridged together.  Insert the
> machine in the path between the end-points somewhere,
> 
>   brctl addbr br0
>   brctl addif br0 eth0
>   brctl addif br0 eth1
>   dhclient br0
> 
> or something, and then run wireshark/ethereal on br0.
> 
> 

I think someone's been hacking too many wireless access points.

galen