Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Are There any Bandwidth Limts for Ethereal ?!

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From: Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:38:05 -0600
What filter did you use to isolate the DHCP traffic?


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:23:08 +0100, Tim Carmele <timcarmele@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi there, 
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> as a netwrok-technican, I use ethereal to sniff some packets of the
> dhcp-protocol to locate a failure in our 
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> network. But when i start a capture, there are no dhcp-packts in the flow,
> but they have to be there. 
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> The Traffic on the mirrorport, i am sniffing from, seems to rise up to
> 40mbit/s which means 
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> about 4 mio packets/s. Is it possible, that Ethereal can´t handle this summ
> of traffic for capture ALL packets? 
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> My networkcard is 100MBit/s, the ethernet port i am sniffing from is also
> 100mbit/s. 
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> It would be very nice to get a feedback for my request, as soon as possible.
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> This problem is HOT to me… L 
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> Best Regards, 
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> Tim. 
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