Guy Harris wrote:
> Make absolutely positively sure you have enabled promiscuous mode; in
> 0.8.18, it's not the default, and, at least with some network devices in
> at least some situations, not enabling promiscuous mode causes the SunOS
> 5.x packet capture mechanism not to see packets sent from the machine.
I do have promiscuous mode selected from the capture dialogue box and I
can see packets exchanged between other machines.
> then click "Save" to update the preferences (or edit your
> "~/.ethereal/preferences" file, if you have one, and change the
> "capture.prom_mode" line to say "TRUE" rather than "FALSE"; if you don't
> have one, create one, with the line
>
> capture.prom_mode: TRUE
I saved my preferences and then went in and edited my preferences file
to match the above line. This appears to have cured the problem. It
looks like selecting promiscuous mode from the capture dialogue box does
not have the same effect as having it in your preferences file.
Thanks to Guy and Bolan for their help.
Yours Aye,
Ronnie
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