Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Seeing own packet at full duplex port

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From: "Visser, Martin" <martin.visser@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:31:31 +1100


  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keun Lee
> Sent: Monday, 15 March 2004 12:15 PM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Seeing own packet at full duplex port
> 
> I am running Ethereal on full duplex ethernet ports of Windows XP.
> I see that it captures transmitted packets (as well as the 
> received packets). I don't understand how the transmitted 
> packets are captured on full duplex ethernet ports.

This is the standard behaviour of PCAP. If you don't wish to capture packets you send, just use "not ether src xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" in the capture filter. (xx etc is your MAC address)

> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Keun
> 
> 
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Martin Visser ,CISSP
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