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For you, probably the easiest way is to get a netgear gs108E switch. It allows management of ports and would allow you to "sniff" the port of your pc. Other options are a true hub (hard to find),...

The standard install does not include the packages needed for CentOS. I don't think there is an "install all" in CentOS6 like there was on 5. You just have to make sure the correct packages are...

I know it ran "out of the box" on CentOS 6 (not sure about 7 since it was recently released). I do not know about fedora core but it used to run out of the box on that at least a couple years ago.