Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethernet Taps

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:40 +0200
Guy Harris wrote:

Hansang Bae wrote:


Like Ulf mentioned, rackable taps are nice. Having redundant power
supplies for the rack is nice (that way you don't need a bunch of
power cubes that take up precious space for each and every tap).
SNMP  monitoring may be nice depending on the situation, etc.

Besure to test the power up and power down of taps. Some taps are
completely transparent when they power down, but can take up to
(approx) two seconds for it to power up (so for two seconds, no
packets make it  through)
Would this be information that should either go into the "Capture using a network tap" section of the CaptureSetup/Ethernet page of the Ethereal Wiki, or in a network tap Wiki page linked to from that section? 
I've added it to that page.

Regards, ULFL