Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] promiscuous mode help

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From: "Tapscott, John (ITS)" <john.tapscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:23:14 -0500
Title: RE: [Ethereal-users] promiscuous mode help

Joyce,

Some 3Com Ethernet cards could not do promiscuous mode.  If the term "Parallel Tasking" is mentions in its description or specifications, it probably can not.

johnt

-----Original Message-----
From: Joyce Lin [mailto:joycelin_01@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:17 PM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] promiscuous mode help

Hi all,

  I am trying to capture packets in promiscuous mode.
My (only configured) network card is a 3Com 3c920 but configured in Red Hat 9 as a 3c905c.  When I ask Ethereal to capture in promiscuous mode, it doesn't -- all I receive is my own traffic plus UDP broadcast messages.  I used ifconfig  ("ifconfig eth0 promisc") to put the card into promiscuous mode, but still nothing.  This is what I get for eth0 when I type in

ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:06:5B:B9:8B:D2
          inet addr:192.168.1.105  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:120227 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:1 frame:0
          TX packets:73141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:151750568 (144.7 Mb)  TX bytes:7873480 (7.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80


I'm pretty sure I've captured in promiscuous mode with
this card before so I'm wondering what's up.  Thanks
in advance for any help!

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