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Sniffing of Juniper and Cisco Switches

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We have ssg5 and Cisco Catalyst which do not support netFlow, is it possible to sniff them, My interest is to monitor IP and Protocols which could not be possible through SNMP.

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Hello,

packet sniffing might be possible if these switches have a monitoring port, that you could connect a Windows host running a PRTG Remote Probe to.

Best regards.

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Sniffing of Juniper and Cisco Switches

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