Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Short frames

[Robert Ryan-Silva <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pardon me if this is a newbie question; I could not find the answer in the 
archives or elsewhere.

I am running Ethereal 0.8.19 under Windows 2000 Professional on a Fujitsu 
Lifebook with a Linksys Combo PCMCIA card.  I am running the latest version 
of WinPcap.

When I try to track traffic around the LAN with Ethereal, the packets to 
and from my machine appear fully formed, but all other packets appear as 
[Short Frame] -- to and from addresses and the type field, and nothing 
else.  I assume this is because my packet driver is not properly in 
promiscuous mode.

My first question: is that right?  From reading the questions of others who 
have problems with promiscuous mode, it seems they do not see any other 
traffic at all.

The card supports promiscuous mode, though I cannot be sure that the driver 
does (how could I tell?).  The hub is a hub and not a switch.  Anything 
else I'm missing?

Any advice would be appreciated.

- Rob