Monitoring Sniffer Tibbo

Ethernet Tap is an affordable sniffer for monitoring Ethernet traffic flowing through a single Ethernet connection. The Tap passes the Ethernet traffic through with a delay equal to about 5.2uS.

This sniffer device must be used with the Ethernet Tap plugin.

Connecting Ethernet Tap

To monitor Ethernet traffic, an Ethernet cable that was initially connecting a switch (hub) to an Ethernet device is replaced by two Ethernet cables and the Ethernet Tap is inserted between them, in what is known as a "wedge" fashion.

Key Features

• Reliably captures 10Base-T and 100Base-T Ethernet traffic.
• Based on Intel MAX10 FPGA.
• Six LEDs onboard:
  • Green Ready LED;
  • Green 100Mbps LED (left RJ45 jack);
  • Green 100Mbps LED (right RJ45 jack);
  • Yellow Link/Activity LED (left RJ45 jack);
  • Yellow Link/Activity LED (right RJ45 jack);
  • Blue Power LED.
• High-speed (480Mbps) USB2.0 interface on a USB-C connector.
• Supplied with a USB-C cable.
• USB-powered, no additional external power necessary.
• Compact, outside dimensions only 82 x 74 x 30 mm.
• The product is field-upgradeable via the USB interface.

Hardware Specifications

Documentation