Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal capture filter doesn't work

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From: Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:48:10 +0100
> As soon as I remove the capture filter, ethereal captures
> all the packets on the 192.168.1.x/24 network. 

Are you absolutely sure that the packets you see are not all broadcasts
or addressed to or from 192.168.1.2? It isn't always obvious, there's
often just enough and varied traffic to make you think you're seeing it
all.

FWIW: The cheapest hub I could find for my home network is a switch.

--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."

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