Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] ICMP echo request not showing in capture?

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From: sami.hanninen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:04:46 +0200
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:48:06AM +0200, 
> sami.hanninen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm capturing traffic in promiscuous mode and everything else seems 
> > fine, but the packets my machine sents seem to partly disappear.
> 
> Partly, or completely?  Do you see any packets at all from 
> your machine?

Yes, I see some packets from my machine.

> > For example: I
> > ping something and my machine sends echo request - but 
> Ethereal only 
> > shows the echo reply in the capture. Same kind of thing seems to 
> > happen with other protocols like Oracle SQL*Net etc.
> 
> On what OS are you doing this?

Windows 2000 with winpcap's newest version. I also have other software which
also bind to network adapter: Checkpoint Securemote, VMWare bridge protocol
and MS network monitor driver.

> On some OSes, packets sent by the machine running a capture 
> program won't be seen by the capture mechanism provided by the OS.

Ouch - quick quess would be that MS is doing just that with W2K.

Sami