The act of passively monitoring network traffic by way of a specialized device directly connected to the network medium. The term can also be used to describe the device itself.
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Why do network taps have four ports?
I've been looking at a hardware network tap like this one to replace a pseudo-permanent SPAN that's been running on a Catalyst switch. All the taps I find have four interfaces: A, B, and two output ...
