["Ulf Bertilsson" <ulf.bertilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't worry about this packets.

It's SMB segment broadcast.

 

Basicly the browser protocol (port 137?) will

broadcast itself at given interval to the segment broadcast.

 

Something like "Hi, my name is ulf and I'm a workstation"

 

An selected computer in this segment will collect this

and make up the "Network neiborhood list"

 

SMB is the filesharing protocol used in Windows/Samba lan manager etc..

Perfrectly normal.

 

Regards

Ulf

-----Original Message-----
From: ouvrard [mailto:ouvrard-contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:47 PM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] French Newbie question

Hello everybody,

 

First, sorry for my bad english (I am french)

 

When I have installed ethereal, I thought that it will show me all packets send to or from my machine.

 

But when I do a capture on my network (my IP is 201.0.0.115, network is 201.0.0.255, we have a proxy with external IP 212.208.229.250 and internal IP 201.0.0.2) I can see lines like this one :

 

NO        TIME            SOURCE           DESTINATION        PROTOCOL        INFO

59        17.007931    212.208.229.39    212.208.229.255       BROWSER        Host Announcement blablablablabla

 

What does it mean ?

 

- proxy is not well configured ?

- my pc or ethereal is not well configured ?

- my provider is not well configured ?

- network is not well configured ?

- other ...........?

 

Thank you for your help,

waiting for reply,

best regards

stephane ouvrard