We cannot touch their network, for one, and I'm not buying managed switches and sending them out with my field technicians. On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:43 AM, "Andrew S. Zbikowski" <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote: > Possibly dumb question...buy why not configure a mirror port on your switch(es) to dump all traffic for specific switch ports the port your packet sniffer is on? A good managed switch is able to do this, though terminology varies from vendor to vendor. > > Need to justify good managed switches? Demonstrate that a user can plug a network cable into two live network jacks and take down the network. ;-) > > -- > Andrew Zbikowski > http://andy.zibnet.us/ > Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep mini bon. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130913/b6a635fb/attachment.html>