It seems a winpcap problem.
Can you tell me:
- the OS
- the NIC model
- what happens using windump. What doses 'windump -D' return?
Loris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Spencer" <dreadnought@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: FW: [Ethereal-users] RE: Ethereal - Problems w/ notebook?
> Hi Thomas!
>
> I tried that many times .. both with promiscuous mode selected and
> unselected. Ethereal never saw anything put broadcast and localhost
> traffic.
>
> I did however eventually get Ethereal to work in an unconventional way. I
> ran the Etherpeek demo in the background, and even though the capture
stops
> after 30 seconds due to the evaluation nature of the product, the
Etherpeek
> drivers must still be running, because if I then run Ethereal with
Etherpeek
> running in the background, Ethereal DOES pick up all traffic correctly!
>
> Any idea if this is a known issue?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Thomas.Kornmueller@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:52 PM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] RE: Ethetreal - Problems w/ notebook?
>
> <snip>
>
> it seems, that your Ethereal is not running in promiscuous mode. Since
> Ethereal 0.8.18, promiscuous mode is not set by default.
> So enable promiscuous mode checkbox in the window 'Capture Preferences'
> (Menu 'Capture' --> 'Start') and try it again.
>
> <snip>
>
>
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