["Sergio Gomez" <serg_gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Guy,

Yes, I was expecting to catch all traffic to/from my machine, however 
Ethereal did not show anything, even Ethernet packets. Not a single packet. 
If I switch to the 10/100 on-board card, see lots of packets.

Sergio

> From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Sergio Gomez <serg_gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Does Ethereal 0.9.15 support...?
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:13:31 -0700
>
>
> On Oct 16, 2003, at 10:38 AM, Sergio Gomez wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the response, the card is a Linksys WPC55AG, Driver Version : 
> > 2.3.2.4 under Windows 2000 SP4.
>
> Then you will, at best, only be able to see packets sent by or to your 
> machine (or broadcast/multicast packets received by it), and will see them 
> as Ethernet packets, and won't see any management or control packets; 
> Windows and Windows drivers don't support capturing in "monitor mode".
>
> That applies to 802.11 in general; it's not an 802.11 vs. 802.11b vs. 
> 802.11a vs. 802.11g issue.

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