Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Network traffic between my router and my ISP?

["Luis EG Ontanon" <luis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Pedro Tumusok <pedro.tumusok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello Wireshark users.
> >
> > I have installed wireshark on my laptop. That laptop is connected to my
> > wireless router, and my wireless router is connected to my ISP through an
> > ADSL modem.
> >
> > Can I get the instance of wireshark running on my laptop to collect network
> > traffic between router and ISP?
> >
>
> You can place a switch between the Wireless Router and ADSL modem and
> span the correct ports.
> Then you connect your laptop to the switch with a wire to the spanned
> port and then you can capture the traffic between your router and
> modem.

Well once you've put a managed switch there you probably want to use
the statistics of the switch instead of wireshark to calculate
volumes.

> --
> Best regards / Mvh
> Jan Pedro Tumusok
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