["J." <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys, I’m new to this list but I’ve been using ethereal for about a year now (in a fairly limited fashion mind you).  I’m having trouble getting a capture going using an Ethernet + mac address filter.  From what I see in the tcpdump man page I should be able to use the filter line:

 

ether dst ehost

 

Now also in that manual it says for the format of ehost:

 

Ehost may be either a name from /etc/ethers or a number (see ethers(3N) for numeric format).

 

So I’ve referenced the ethers.3N man page and really didn’t get the gist of how I should be formatting my MAC address entry.  I’ve tied x:x:x:x:x:x and x-x-x-x-x-x and xxxx.xxxx.xxxx to no avail.  I’m really just looking to filter (watch the line) based upon the destination MAC address.

 

 

Any insight you guys might have would be appreciated.

 

 

J.