3 port hub

wolfric

Looking for a 3 port hub for basically doing a packet dump on a connection. I've seen a few references online however, some of the descriptions are a bit ambiguous about the terms. I really need a "hub" and not a switch for example. The more portable the better. 3 Isn't a maximum but obviously i'd prefer it to be compact

Just to reinforce the fact that i'm doing additional research online, but i'm looking for any experience or suggestions from people.

Thanks

Edit: had my eye on this http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-EN104TP-4-Port-Ethernet-Uplink/dp/B00000J4M9
and this http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/09/buffalo-usb-powered-3-port-ethernet-hub/

KeRbDoG

The one linked from Amazon should do the trick, one note is that its will only run at 10Mbps instead of 100Mbps. If your not looking to shift a large amount of data during your packet sniffing, should be fine.

Very hard to get new 'hubs' these days as switching technology is so cheap, prob costs more now to mfg hubs that switches

If you wanted to get super fancy and had a lot of money to burn and your requirement for a compact solution, you can get mid/high end switches (managed switches usually) to enable one of their ports as a 'monitoring' port. Means all traffic across the switch also get dumped to that one port. Again, expensive but nice to know

daffy_duc

You could build your own Passive Ethernet Tap.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/passive_ethernet_tap.jsp

john__long

EDIT:

KeRbDoG already mentioned it!

Sorry!

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Just a thought but if you're already on a Cisco switch you could use Cisco's Switched Port Analyzer(SPAN) to monitor the traffic flowing in/out on a port?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_tech_note09186a008015c612.shtml#descp