Mini Throwing Star LAN Tap 1.5 Network Packet with RJ45 Connector Capture Mod 100% Replica Monitoring Ethernet Break Haker Tool

this segment of hak5 is brought to you by windows azure today where packet sniffing and no it's not a blackhat man-in-the-middle attack if you're a network administrator or anyone who has to troubleshoot network issues you should have a passive network tap in your toolkit a network tap is basically a piece of hardware that lets you see the data flowing across a network in a lot of cases you can use a computer to monitor the traffic between two ports on a network say between your router and a switch suffice it to say if the network between points a and B are of the physical Ethernet cable variety a network tab is the best way to take a look at the traffic a tap has to be at least three ports and a port a beep or and some kind of monitor port for example the a port can be connected to the switch providing internet access and the B port can be connected to the computer you'd like to monito