Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Packet Capture & Personal Firewalls

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 08:20:28 -0700
I checked wireshark on XP and Ethereal on Mac OS 10.4; both continue to 
receive packets with the firewall turned on and in 'full' blocking mode. I 
didn't test services on the workstations as Apple explicitly requires 
these services to be turned off when blocking those ports with the 
firewall.

Randy Grein
Network Engineer



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Randy,

That is the problem I have at work as well, can't disable the firewall.

Keith.
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> Depends. IIRC the NIC may be in promiscuous mode and pass all packets up
> the stack, but the firewall sits between it and the application. Hence
> packets will be filtered. I can't test this at work to verify as we have
> the firewall controlled by a group policy, but I can check when I get
> home.
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> I thought this did not matter as Wireshark puts the NIC card in
> promiscuous mode and hence the IP address of the PC is irrelevant unless
> you want to things such as pings. However, some people think otherwise.
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> Are there any problems doing a capture on a WinXP machine that has a
> personal firewall such as ZoneAlarm running on it?
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