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

["Randy's Mail" <randysingleton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the response.  They are Ethernet NICs.

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:05 AM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] no packets


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

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