Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] no capture

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:27:49 -0800
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:41:29PM -0500, Bruce W. Apple MA, NCC wrote:
> The capture dialogue box opens, and all the values
> remain at zero.zero 0.0 Except for the number at the bottom, i.e.  the
> elapsed time of data capture mode counts.  I let it run for 20 seconds. 
> There was no data captured and all values remained at zero.

Is your machine transmitting or receiving any data while Ethereal is
running?

If not, you might not see any traffic, even if *other* machines plugged
into your BEFSR41 are transmitting or receiving traffic:

> I suspect that the problem is that the linksys router is preventing
> ethereal from "seeing any data".

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

because the BEFSR41 has a 4-port switch inside it.