<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jun 11, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Chad Walstrom wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Which is why we dropped Vonage like a rock.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If they would instead</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">have a simple VoIP-to-POTS converter, we might have kept them around.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">They needed their grubby little fingers in my router, so they were</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">booted.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Buh-bye.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>After my initial attempt to do some packet sniffing was unsuccessful I decided to make a bit of a project of it. I built a simple passive ethernet TAP from the instructions at:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.snort.org/docs/tap/">http://www.snort.org/docs/tap/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Unfortunately, I still haven't got any more info. I put the TAP between my Linksys (Vonage-enabled) router and my cable modem and set up my laptop so it would have a static IP on the same network as my external IP (netmask 255.255.254.0 in my case). I started up ethereal and didn't capture a single packet from either TAP port.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Has anyone ever used one of these homebuilt TAPs before? Am I using it correctly?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Tim</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tim Wilson, The Savvy Technologist</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mailto: <A href="mailto:wilson@visi.com">wilson@visi.com</A><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>aim: tis270<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>blog and podcast: <A href="http://technosavvy.org">http://technosavvy.org</A></DIV></SPAN></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>