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On Friday, September 09, 2005 3:40 PM, Ryan P. Sommers <> unleashed the infinite
monkeys and produced:

> PS If anyone knows of a hub that's "easy" to find and still is an actuall
> good 'ol hub, let me know.

Not a hub, but a different solution - a network "tap".  They're designed to do
exactly what you're looking for - allow sniffing of traffic from a link.

Most taps require you to sniff the traffic on 2 ports, one for each direction.
However NetOptics (and probably others) do a range of taps that aggregate the
traffic onto a single cable.

-- 
 Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!