Xircom cards were quite good in promiscuous mode a couple of years back on Win98. I have tried again lately on Win2000 and it did not work. However that might be related to VPN SW that I am using.
Regards
Martin
"Michael Riley" <csguru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Is there such a device that I could plug inline to check to see if a network (LAN or Wan) is allowing a specific port through?
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>My situation is that I'm engaged in a type of alarm monitoring via the internet and with all the different ISP's, router box's, networking equipment, etc I'm spending hours trying to make sure that the port I need is open.
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>With a device I am envisioning I would have 2 CAT 5 connections and I would plug inline at any given point in the network and check to see if the required port is open.
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>I have been trying to use ethereal to do this but I'm not getting desired results, having troubles finding a laptop NIC card that will work in promiscuous mode.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
>Thank you
>
>I apologize in advance if this was not a appropriate place to post this.
>
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