Hi William On 21/04/02, William Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ... the reason you are getting only the traffic between the target box > and switch is because the switch is only supposed to forward traffic > for that machine.
Thanks for explaining this. I remember now! > ... What you need to do is possibly run a > trafshow using a machine on the port coming "out" of the switch or get > the switch to give you stats on what it is doing for which machine. If > that is possible you alone can determine... I will use either a hub to connect the switch, monitoring station and router device, or use the switch's port mirroring feature. Thanks for your help. Rory > > Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > >I have tested tcpdump at another smaller office where I was able to > >trace all the network traffic between the gateway and workstations all > >linked on the same small switch. However in the larger office the Bay > >450-24T (now Nortel) managed switches we use appear to confound tcpdump > >so that only traffic between the localhost and the targeted system > >appear, even if I place a mini-hub between the tracing machine and the > >switch (which also provides the network connection to the router). -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
