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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by asdfaoeu on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:05AM (#10109763)
The cheap and easy way to do this is to buy a hub and plug it into your router the computer you want to analyse and another computer.
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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by lewiseason on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:40AM (#10110110)
Or buy/make something like this:

http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/throwing-star-lan-tap

and a couple of USB-Ethernet adaptors

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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by BuildTheRobots on Monday August 24, 2015 @01:15PM (#10111398)
Even easier (buying hubs is hard) and possibly cheaper (switches with mirror ports aren't the cheapest) is to just stick two network cards into your linux box, set up a layer-2 bridge and sniff everything going between.

CentOS/RedHat derivitives: https://www.banym.de/linux/centos/setup-bridge-device-on-cen...

Debian/Ubuntu: https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections

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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by mikeash on Monday August 24, 2015 @01:05PM (#10111315)
If you happen to have a computer with both WiFi and ethernet (many/most laptops these days), set it up as a bridge, connect the Windows machine to one of those interfaces and use the other one to connect to the internet.
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