You'd be surprised what a Fortune 500 company will do to you if they found out you've put something intelligent on their network. We have to get approval at sites to use hubs - I will fire any employee that does not have approval in writing from the person who manages the closet they work in. I've been in the industry for close to 15 years now and I used to throw away hubs when I found them - now I wish I didn't. Yes, your assumption is correct. The device that need to be monitored are appliances that report life safety equipment to a monitoring station (fire, burg, etc.) and are not something we can install or use with other software on our end. On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:42 AM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > You mean a hub, and not a switch, correct? > > I'm assuming this is to make it possible to sniff network traffic from devices where you can't use wireshark or tcpdump, right? > > I was looking for a hub about 10 years ago, and they were difficult to find then. I'd imagine they are almost impossible to find now. > > You'll have better luck sticking a linux router in the middle and using that to sniff traffic. > > John > > On 9/12/13 11:35 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> A fool's errand - I had two at my last job but a) they belonged to my employer and 2) they were rack-mount. >> >> I need a network hub… or a few, if possible. >> >> MicroCenter didn't have it - that doesn't surprise me. But Tiger Direct, NewEgg and Amazon don't, either. >> >> So do any of you know of a place online I can get them? I need about a half-dozen. I would prefer online so I can have the company pay for them and not deal with cash and hand-written receipts. >> >> Thanks!! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list