Re: Capture packet from remote device

["Gopalakrishnan A.N" <saigop () gmail com>]

Ok, so I can capture a traffic of Host B from Host A in a same network
connected with switch by viewing the diagram in the provided link.

Can you please let me know how to do this...like do I need to give the Host
B MAC address or IP address in Host A or any thing else...



On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>wrote:

> 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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Thank you  with regards,
Gopalakrishnan A.N,

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