Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Promiscuous mode

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:04:27 -0700
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:51:28AM -0400, Achinger, Warren wrote:
> Has anyone experienced the following problem with ethereal-0.8.18-2.i686:
> No matter what the preference setting is for promiscuous mode is,
> ethereal-0.8.18-2.i686 does not capture packets in promiscuous mode.

It's a bug in 0.8.18.  Upgrade to 0.8.19.