Do you find yourself needing to access the packets on the wire, but lack the tools to accomplished the task? Then Dualcomm’s EasyTAP product family, provides full duplex, 10/100/1000 traffic of the same network link segment simultaneously. Small in size, it is USB powered and supports Power-over-Ethernet pass-through.
SPAN out of the box a presentation at Sharkfest 2010 by John HE, Hardware Engineer, Founder | Dualcomm Technology, Inc. (view PDF)
This is a piratical view of SPAN vs TAP. that examines what has been said about the “Cons” of using a SPAN port, and how real they are, including discusses the real headaches of using a SPAN port, and introduces a “SPAN Out of the Box” solution to relief the headaches.