Throwing Star LAN Tap by Great Scott Gadgets

The Throwing Star LAN Tap is a passive Ethernet tap, requiring no power for operation. There are active methods of tapping Ethernet connections (e.g., a mirror port on a switch), but none can beat passive taps for portability. To the target network, the Throwing Star LAN Tap looks just like a section of cable, but the wires in the cable extend to the monitoring ports in addition to connecting one target port to the other.

• Hak5 Build Video: https://youtu.be/3zUsJm3bwGY

• Source: http://greatscottgadgets.com/throwingstar/throwing-star-20110217.tar.gz

• History: http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2011/02/throwing-star-lan-tap.html

• Instructions: https://greatscottgadgets.com/throwingstar/throwing-star-instructions.pdf

• Usage: https://greatscottgadgets.com/throwingstar/

• Hardware design: https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/throwing-star-lan-tap

• Getting help: https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/throwing-star-lan-tap/issues