
Ultimately, you need access to the Ethernet connection you want to monitor, as well as Wireshark to unravel the mysteries of the data you will collect. The USB will need to be formatted in NTFS (this will be resolved later).

To record monitoring traffic, you'll also need a USB flash drive. For extended sessions, you'll need a larger battery pack with a Micro-USB cable. If used for a short time, a small battery pack can be used (this battery pack usually comes with its own small USB cable). Packet Squirrel only requires 5V, 150mA of power, so you can use something as simple as a smartphone charger. We'll plug the device into your computer's USB port, but if you want to deploy it in the real world, you'll need a power adapter or a small battery instead. The device doesn't come with a power adapter, so you'll also need a Micro-USB cable and power supply. You will need a Packet Squirrel, created by Hak5 from its website, Amazon, or possibly another online store.
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Allow the board to dry before use.Suppose there is a router for which you know the password and have physical access to an Ethernet connection where a Packet Squirrel can be attached - a pocket-sized tool inserted in the middle of the network. Depending on the type of solder used, you might need water, alcohol, or other solvents.
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Use your favorite software (e.g., tcpdump or Wireshark) on the monitoring station(s) to capture network traffic.Each port monitors traffic in one direction only. Use Ethernet cables to connect one or both of the monitoring ports (J3 and J4) to ports on one or two monitoring stations.Use Ethernet cables to connect the Throwing Star LAN Tap (J1 and J2) in line with a target network to be monitored.It is a good practice to use cables that are not any longer than necessary. In situations where very long cables are in use, the signal degradation could reduce network performance. Except as described above for Gigabit networks, this rarely causes problems on the target network. Like all passive LAN Taps, the Throwing Star LAN Tap degrades signal quality to some extent. This is the purpose of the two capacitors (C1 and C2).

It is not possible for an unpowered tap to perform monitoring of 1000BASET (Gigabit Ethernet) networks, so the Throwing Star LAN Tap intentionally degrades the quality of 1000BASET target networks, forcing them to negotiate a lower speed (typically 100BASETX) that can be passively monitored. The Throwing Star LAN Tap is designed to monitor 10BASET and 100BASETX networks. This makes it impossible for the monitoring station to accidentally transmit data packets onto the target network.


The monitoring ports (J3 and J4) are receive-only they connect to the receive data lines on the monitoring station but do not connect to the station's transmit lines.
