Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problems viewing traffic

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Alan T wrote:

> Well before I sent you the email I checked the FAQ and
> saw "5.1 When I use Ethereal to capture packets, I see
> only packets to and
>   from my machine, or I'm not seeing all the traffic
> I'm expecting to
>   see from or to the machine I'm trying to monitor."
> So I googled my card which is VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast
> Ethernet Adapter and found out that it does support
> "promiscuous" mode. I am trying to monitor the
> incoming and outcoming packets of a voice chat server
> I am on and I don't get anything besides my the IP of
> the server and my IP... What am I doing wrong? 
>  
If I understand you correct, you are trying to capture traffic to and 
from a server and Ethereal is on a different machine.

See http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fEthernet

Regards, ULFL