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Re: Capture packet from remote device


From: Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:54:21 -0600

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:09:08PM +0530, Gopalakrishnan A.N wrote:

The traffic flows between SPA3102 and other SPA3102 and my computer is 
in the same network... from my computer's wireshark is it possible to 
capture the packets of both the SPA3102 device which is in the same 
network.

Generally, no, because switches do not flood unneeded traffic (that 
which is not destined for the machine on that port) out all ports like a 
hub does.  This page should be of help to you:

        http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Ethernet

Along with the main capture setup page:

        http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup

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