Please share any knowledge or experience that you have on packet inspection using smartphones. I would like to sniff at my switch, which is switching between my (two LANs)[1] and my ISP. For this, I have mirrored all ports that are in use to a port that is currently not in use. Can I simply buy one of those USB-C to Ethernet dongles and use tcpdump in Termux? Will Android recognize the dongle as a sniffable network interface? The phone is rooted.
I put “two LANs” within parentheses to denote that the two LANs are not being switched between. ↩︎
A rooted android phone can run a whole bunch of classical Linux apps for networking including packet sniffing since it has a proper kernel with support for it
Many years ago I was using USB WiFi Modem through micro USB port on my tablet. Since that worked, my guess is USB to Ethernet should be recognized as well.
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A rooted android phone can run a whole bunch of classical Linux apps for networking including packet sniffing since it has a proper kernel with support for it
Right! Do you think the phone will recognize the USB to Ethernet dongle as a network interface?
Many years ago I was using USB WiFi Modem through micro USB port on my tablet. Since that worked, my guess is USB to Ethernet should be recognized as well.