sniffing on a switched LAN

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Hi,

I often find myself in the position of having to sniff on a connection between for example an arm board I am developing on, and another computer on the network, or out of the network.

The easy situation is when I can install a sniffer on the computer talking to the embedded device. When it is not possible, I currently install an old 10Mb/s HUB. However I am afraid my HUB might stop working, and I would like to know some alternative.

Here are the alternatives I could think of :

Buy another HUB. Is that still possible ?
Have some sort of ethernet sniffing bridge, like what they do for USB. I am afraid this kind of device is expensive.
use ARP poisoning.

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