[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robinson, Eric wrote:
> I�ve used Ethereal for years on hundreds of PCs. Never had a problem, 
> aside from a little BPF parsing weirdness in the early days of WinPcap.
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> But now I�ve got a machine that won�t see promisc traffic on one of its 
> 2 interfaces. It has an Intel Pro/100+ Server Adapter and a cheapo 
> RealTek 10/100. The Intel only sees its own traffic, even though it is 
> plugged into a mirrored switch port. A notebook computer plugged into 
> the same port sees it all.
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> I assume this means WinPcap is having trouble setting the NIC register 
> to put the card in promisc mode, or some such? I dunno, I�ve tried 
> removing all vestiges of WinPcap and Ethereal, rebooting and 
> reinstalling. I�ve tried uninstalling the NIC driver and letting Win2000 
> re-detect it. No joy.
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> What am I missing?

Does that card support promiscuous mode?  Is there any setting 
preventing it from working in promiscuous mode