Originally Posted By: tfabris
Originally Posted By: tman
I've made a Ethernet tap before and it'll do exactly what you want. You need to dedicate two NICs to monitor the traffic however.


Would it? The linked article says it's useful for intrusion detection and sniffing (i.e., listening to the signal), but says nothing about being able to *modify* the traffic, like a firewall or traffic shaper would need to do.

From the looks of the design, it looks like it would just let you listen in on the conversation, but not take over the conversation, as it were. I could be interpreting it wrong...

Ah yeah. Ignore me. Got the wrong end of the stick. I guess you'd do it like Bitt said and have some sort of normally closed connection.