Question : is it possible to capture packets (sniff) remotle from a cisco router traffic using SNMP ?

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is it possible to capture packets (sniff it) remotle from a cisco router traffic using SNMP ?
meaing if i have any packet capturing tool like (Network Associates' Distributed Sniffer) or even (Microsoft Network Monitor) will i be able to sniff the packets on a cisco router using SNMP enabled on it ? And that would be remotly .. my PC which i'm using the network monitor program is remote to the cisco router ...

thanks a lot.

Answer : is it possible to capture packets (sniff) remotle from a cisco router traffic using SNMP ?

It depends on the harware type, you can set up a span session (cisco) on a switch to forward vlan traffic, or port traffic to your span port for analysis by a sniffer or laptop using ethereal for instance. L3 switches also support this feature, there is no way sniff directly connected to a router that I know of.

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