Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal capture is not working

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:42:27 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Thomas Aichinger wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am new with ethereal and I tried to follow the communication between a
> PC and a printer.
[SNIP]
> I started capture on my notebook in promiscuous mode with filter 'host
> 10.10.0.2' but I dont see any traffic. I tried the same with filter 'host
> 10.10.0.1' with same result.
>
> Is this because I'm behind a switch?

yes it is. See also http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q7.1

Jaap