Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] capture problems on laptop

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 15:27:12 -0700
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 01:42:09PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> If it doesn't capture any packets either (which I suspect it won't),
> it's a WinPcap problem

...unless it's a switched-network or dual-speed hub problem, or a
"Windows drivers don't support promiscuous mode" problem, in which case
you'd see packets going to and from the machine running Ethereal, and
broadcast and multicast packets, but no unicast packets between two
other machines:

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.1