Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Cannot capture all packets.

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From: "Stephen Haywood" <shaywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:54:44 -0500
Is it possible that the card is not in promiscuous mode even though
ifconfig says that it is?

Stephen Haywood
Information Systems Adminstrator
Office: (931) 454-1328

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:36 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Cannot capture all packets.

Stephen Haywood said:
> If there are any suggestions I would appreciate them.

I'd suggest you ask HP for help - if tcpdump also sees only broadcast
traffic, this is probably a case of either

    1) promiscuous mode not working on the NIC (although if the
Kingswood
card uses a different chip and driver, that's probably not the
problem)

or

    2) the monitoring port on the switch not getting all traffic through
the switch sent to it

and if it's 2) that's a problem with the switch.


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