How do I snoop an eithernet line with LabView?

[marshri]

I have a piece of equipment that comunicates to a control computer via eithernet. I have to run an experiment on the piece of equipment and I will be using LabView during that experiment. What I would like to do is add some LabView code to my program that would snoop the eithrenet traffic going to and from the piece of equipment. Can LabView be used to snoop eithernet signals and if so, do I need any special equipment/interface cards.

Thanks to all who respond,

marshri

[RJM]

I have had great success using VISA sockets and then usig the NI-SPY program to look at the traffic. I found it much easier than generic "sniffers" since the the only VISA session was mine and the normal ethernet traffic wasn't getting int he way (:-

rjmiller