port doubling (or...)?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1011657570.9968.python-list at python.org>,
maximilianscherr <MaximilianScherr at T-Online.de> wrote:
>i think that uses too much performance,
>you must know, this "portal" server would need to listen to 30-50 
>clients, and that very often, istn#t there another poss than this 
>portal server?
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Sure; there are lots of possibilities.

One is to put the server on Ethernet--where it probably is
already--with another host "sniffing" on the same subnet.
Configure the server as normal.  Teach the sniffer to listen
only to traffic for the server, on the specific port of
interest.  This has essentially no impact on server perfor-
mance.

I don't happen to have one of these around, but anyone work-
ing much in network security knows where to get them.
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