[ipv6hackers] Best Network Tap - for home

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Fri Jul 12 16:02:04 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Pierre Emeriaud wrote:
> > You can't switch off link negotiation on 1000BaseT
> 
> Indeed, but you can force the link down to 100BaseTX easily, and then
> use a passive tap. That's how the ThrowingStar tap[0] works:

Interesting trick, thanks for sharing.  That device is definitely the
right tool for a *Hacker* mailing list :-)

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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