Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] promiscuous in 802.11b

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:08:59 -0800
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:20:00PM -0500, DUY TRAN wrote:
> I am trying to capture TCP/IP packets in the promiscuous mode by running
> Ethereal in WindowsNT using Spectrum24 Wireless LAN cards from Symbol
> Technology.
> So far, I can only capture data from/to the sniffing station.

It may be that either

	1) their cards don't support promiscuous mode (unlike,
	   apparently, at least some Lucent cards, as the FreeBSD and
	   Linux drivers for those cards will change some configuration
	   flag for the card if asked to go into promiscuous mode)

or

	2) their driver doesn't support promiscuous mode (even though
	   NDIS *does* support it).

You should probably check with Symbol Technology on this.