Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] I can only capture my TCP packets:

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gramirez@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:56:43 -0500
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:46:41 "Smith, Mike" wrote:
> 
> 
>  When I trace packets using Ethereal, I can "see" packets of various
> protocols going to and from various addresses. But, I can only see TCP
> protocol packets going to and from my on address. I can not see any TCP
> packets going to nor from any other address even though I know they are
> there(verified with another vendors product). I do not knowingly set any
> capture nor display filters. Can someone help me figure out what is wrong?
> Thanks,
> Mike
> mikesmith@xxxxxxxx
> 
>  - att1.htm

I presume you're on some sort of shared medium, like a hub, not a switch.
It sounds like it, since you said another vendor's product can sniff
just fine. Was that other product plugged into the same network hub
as your Ethereal machine?

What OS and NIC are you using for Ethereal? Perhaps your NIC cannot
go into promiscuous mode.

--gilbert