Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] cannot see "live capture"

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From: "Joseph Pitts" <jpitts@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:44:36 -0400
Ethereal is loaded on BOTH boxes and the "no packet" situation exists on
both of the. I'm interested in solving it on the XP Pro SP1 computer first.

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From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:55 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] cannot see "live capture"

Joseph Pitts wrote:
> Also I'm plugged into a Zywall 1 firewall\router, both the linux(FC4) and
xp
> boxes are running at 100MB.

What "XP box" is this?

Is the Linux box the one running Ethereal?  If so, were you going to the 
Web sites with a browser on it, or on the XP box?

The page at

	
http://www.zyxel.com/product/model.php?indexcate=1021974741&indexcate1=10854
50410&indexFlagvalue=1021873683

says the ZyWall 1 "is equipped with a 4-port switch", so if you're 
running Ethereal on one of your machines, it probably won't be able to 
see network traffic to or from the other machine (regardless of whether 
it's an "Update list of packets in real time" capture or not; the only 
difference "Update list of packets in real time" makes is whether the 
lack of packets manifests itself as an empty packet list or packet 
counts of zero in the capture progress window).

There *might* be some way to monitor the Internet side of the ZyWall 1 
with an option (the firewall/router box I have contains a switch, but it 
has an option to reflect Internet-side traffic back to one of the 
ports).  If nothing else, you could plug the Internet side, whatever 
device was plugged into it, and the machine running Ethereal (or 
whatever traffic capture software you're using) into a *real* hub:

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/HubReference

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