On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Mike Brown <brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:00:24PM +0000, Tom Evans wrote: >> > Then the ethernet ports on both computers >> > would "see" IP traffic meant for each other. >> >> No. > > Ah, but that is indeed what happens. ÂIf a hub is used, all packets are placed > onto all of the jacks of the hub, therefore both computers will see port 80 > packets. ÂSwitches route traffic to the appropriate jack of the switch, hubs > do not. > > When I wanted to snoop all traffic that a computer was seeing and generating, > I'd use a hub to connect the computer I wanted to snoop and he computer doing > the snooping. > > Yes, the builtin snooping facility of the computer I was trying to track the > traffic on should do the trick. ÂBut, in some circumstances I needed a third- > party snooper. > > MB As I've said, you are welcome to your opinions. If you use Listen *:80, and use a hub, your apache instance will not start responding to requests on port 80 directed to another computer on the same hub. Seriously. Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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