Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Xircom RE100 RealPort card not going into promiscuous mode

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:31:44 -0700
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:13:20PM -0400, Eddie Lawrence wrote:
> WinDump works!

"Works" as in "shows traffic that is neither broadcast traffic,
multicast traffic, traffic to your machine, or traffic from your
machine"?

> I guess that rules out the NIC and WinPcap. Perhaps Ethereal
> doesn't like something about Windows 2000?

Unlikely - Ethereal uses the same mechanism, on every OS in existence,
to request promiscuous mode, and that's the same mechanism WinDump uses
(it passes a non-zero value as the "promisc" argument to
"pcap_open_live()").