[130206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the lazy mans HW research
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Wed Sep 29 17:56:00 2010
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:54:33 -0400
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:47:41PM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> i find myself in need of a multiport (8-16) 1 Gig ethernet HUB.
>
> or a switch smart enough to do transparant port mirroring to at least
> four ports.
>
> some kind soul pointed me here, http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=337
> but its not clear if this will actually perform as desired.
I was recently pointed at this:
http://www.dual-comm.com/gigabit_port-mirroring-LAN_switch.htm
Haven't ordered one to try yet, but it looks very useful for
troubleshooting GigE and PoE links, alas only 5 ports a 1 mirror.
