[ale] OT Linksys primiscuous mode

[Ed Cashin]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, jtholmes <linux at jtholmes.com> wrote:
>
>
> My Linux machine plugs directly into one of the four ports
> on a Linksys WRT54G router and I can see any traffic to and
> from my other machines. Which probably makes sense as
> the router is not telling all ports what is coming and going
> from each individual port.
>
> Is there any way (short of putting a hub or switch in front
> of the Linksys) to capture all packets going into and out of
> the Linksys.
> i.e. a promiscuous mode setting in the Linksys.
>
> I have looked and can't find such an option.

It sounds like you want port mirroring for every port.  Is
that what you want, or just the uplink?

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