Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Question: Capturing TCP packets on a remote node for all no

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:54:31 -0700
Efrain A Manglona wrote:
On a LAN with 4 other Windows-based PCs transmitting TCP packets over TCP socket port 3000, the Ethereal sniffer is not capturing any of the TCP packets on this network. It only captures UDP packets and non-related TCP packets, not the TCP packets sent by applications on the other 4 nodes on this LAN. 

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q5.2

which refers you to...


Questions:
1) If a NetGear GigaSwitch is on this LAN, does it interfere with the Ethereal node capturing all TCP packets on the network? 

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

which explains that, yes, switches *do* interfere with capturing traffic.