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Port mirroring to LAN port - Is it working now?
Searched for a guide how to set this up. According to this post it is not working: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/quot-WAN-Port-mirror-to-LAN-port1-quot-Not-Working/td-p/1971083 Debugging...
Good Luck. I was bitterly disappointed when I tried it, but that was over a year ago. I wanted to see every packet that appeared on the WAN port, both to the Orbi and from the Orbi, for as long as I had disk space to hold. The option to Enable LAN/WAN packet capture creates circular files in system memory (or in my case on a USB stick in my Version 1 Orbi's USB port) and they do not hold much. I wanted to let Wireshark run for over 24 hours so I could watch my Orbi renew the DHCP lease from Spectrum.
hi,
OK, I have had 2.7.3.22 for more thaan a year, so not much has change dthen. But no neeed, it is working fine, yes.
I think "WAN Mirror to LAN Port 1" means that you can connect a PC/MAC to port 1 and sniff with Wireshark for packets. That is what I will try.
Good Luck. I was bitterly disappointed when I tried it, but that was over a year ago. I wanted to see every packet that appeared on the WAN port, both to the Orbi and from the Orbi, for as long as I had disk space to hold. The option to Enable LAN/WAN packet capture creates circular files in system memory (or in my case on a USB stick in my Version 1 Orbi's USB port) and they do not hold much. I wanted to let Wireshark run for over 24 hours so I could watch my Orbi renew the DHCP lease from Spectrum.
OK, thanks for clarifying. In my case 24H is enough, so I will give it a try.
Sorry I was not clear. My goal was to capture 24 hours of WAN data. What actually happened was I did not get anything useful at all.
I expected to see every packet to and from the Orbi WAN port, but that was not what I got. The debug option to capture LAN/WAN packets does this, but cannot capture very much due to the size of memory. When I used a 32GB USB stick, the WAN capture file topped out at less than 2GB. I was totally unable to capture 24 hours.