Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] no packets

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Randy's Mail wrote:

> 	I am new to Ethereal and this group. I installed Ethereal with no errors,
> but I don't see any packets when I do a capture.  I have two NICs and
> Ethereal sees both of them, but I don't see any traffic during downloads on
> either of the NICs. I am running XP Home w/SP2.

Are they Ethernet NICs, wireless NICs, or some other kind of NIC?

By default, Ethereal will capture in promiscuous mode; some wireless 
NICs don't capture any traffic in promiscuous mode:

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.41