Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Other Connections found in a trace

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gruchevsky, Steven A wrote:

> I have Ethereal loaded on several of my servers.  I would expect to see 
> packets only sourced or destined to the server in which I am capturing.  
> Actually, I am seeing packets for other source destination pairs.  Why 
> would this occur?  My servers are attached to switches.

Are the destinations unicast, or are they broadcast or multicast?

If they're unicast, that's a surprise, as I'd expect the switch not to 
forward to the port for one of your servers packets not sent to a MAC 
address for the server's adapter plugged into that switch.