codesegment Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Can this device be used between a modem and router? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Just as long as it is a 10/100 connection and not gigabit, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer_Security Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I am confused on how the throwing star actually works can anyone explain it to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 It's a passive, in-line splitter for an over simplified explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitwon Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 It works basically the same way a headphone splitter works, only a network cable transmits data in two directions so you have to split it twice (once for each direction.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer_Security Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 ohhhhh I thought It would be some type of device that grabs traffic going through the line or something.... Its just a splitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitwon Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 ohhhhh I thought It would be some type of device that grabs traffic going through the line or something.... Its just a splitter Well that's exactly what it allows you to do. It allows you to monitor the traffic going across the line, passively. There's no way for the device on either end of the wire to detect that it's there (short of analyzing the current sag), but you can read or inject any traffic directly on the wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer_Security Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 ohhhhhh now I get it you have a Ethernet wire going from your laptop to the star and that's how you grab the traffic right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spazi Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 And use it combined with wireshark :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer_Security Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 thats awesome Im gonna pick one up now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Before the "this pos doesn't work" post shows up. The computer that's listening will need 2 network cards to listen to the whole network stream. One card will listen to the "transmit" side of the stream, the other will listen to the "receive" sided. The tap is constructed so that your machine can't send any data into the stream(so it won't show up on network scans) so both ports have the transmit lines removed. Wireshark has the ability to take two data streams and combine them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer_Security Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 So lets say that there is a victims computer on a desk and there is a Ethernet line running from the laptop to a RJ45 jack in the wall so if I unplug that and plug it into the star and then run a little 1 foot patch cable to the RJ45 jack and then run another wire to my desk and open up WIRESHARK i can see everything and not show up on network scans this is awesome!!!!!! And by the way this situation is just in theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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