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You could try InJoy firewall. It has network trace in it. And there is
a working demo for it on there web site.
Dave Saville wrote:
> OT for WIFI but may prove useful to somebody I hope.
>
> I am having a problem with a Zyxel ATA and a Zyxel router. Their support is
> being very helpful and suggested that the next time I had the problem a
network
> trace would be helpful. So I started looking for a solution only to
find there
> is not one for OS/2. I did find some code on Hobbes but it is very old and
> obviously suffering from software rot as it threw loads of errors when
I tried
> to compile it. :-)
>
> I then recalled that my Solaris box almost certainly had snoop on it
and that
> proved to be the case so I ensured I could trace the two boxes.
>
> This morning I once again gave some brain cells over to an OS/2
solution and
> had a flash of lateral inspiration. VPC using virtual switch puts your
NIC into
> promiscuous mode. In that case would OS/2's normal iptrace work - and the
> answer is YES it traces all packets on the network. You need to
actually have a
> virtual machine running but that's all.
>
> There is one big proviso in all this of course. The tracing machine and
> whatever it is tracing *must* be connected by a HUB not a SWITCH.
(Switches act
> a bit like routers - they know what is connected to which port. You can
see the
> difference with ping. Ping a box on hub connected machines and all the
lights
> blink. Do the same thing with a switch and only the two machines concerned
> blink.)
>
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