Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] capturing packets in promiscuous mode

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:33:35 -0600 (CST)
Would it be useful to have some sort of hardware database on the web site,
showing which cards work with Ethereal under a particular OS/driver
combination?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, darren wrote:

> HI,
> 
> Promiscuous mode refers only to "Promiscuity" on the Network Layer I
> think. 
> 
> Other people's packets may not on the same "Physical" network as you.
> You will thus not be able to see any "other people's packets" because
> you are not "Associated" to them and hence not "physically connected" to
> them.
> 
> For you to be sniff-promiscuous on WLAN with Ethereal, you need to put
> your card into monitor mode.
> 
> I do not know of any avbl drivers to do this in Windows except those
> provided by a few software houses for use with only their own programs.
> 
> If anyone got any WLAN drivers in windows that support Monitor mode,
> Please let me know!!
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Darren
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Gaynor
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:16 AM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] capturing packets in promiscuous mode
> 
> Hi, I am having a problem with ethereal, not sure if it is my card, or
> that I don't know what I am doing.  I am using windows2000, with a Dell
> Truemobile wireless card.  When I try an capture packets in promiscuous
> mode I only see incoming packets, but when I set promiscuous mode off, i
> see both in and out packets.  However, I never see packets from any
> other
> wireless devices like I expect to.  I am confussed.  
> 
> 
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