Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal does not capture all packets?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:57:06 -0800
spammy wrote:


Is it possible that Ethereal does not capture all packets? I am sure
that one of my client generate TCP traffic as well, but ethereal capture
only Browser Election Requests or ARP, NBNS or DHCP messages. And no
TCP/IP traffic . Why? Should I change some settings? The funny is that
from other clients it captures TCP/IP as well. Thank you!

How is the network configured?  Are the machines to and from which 
you're trying to capture traffic plugged into a switch?  Are you 
capturing on some machine other than the clients, or are you running it 
on one of the clients?