Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Only Seeing Outgoing Packets

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Bradley wrote:
> > 3. If you're using promiscuous mode, are you doing so on Windows?
>
> Yeah, everything's on Windows.
>
> I'm just thinking what other information I could give...
>
> The network card on the (monitor) laptop is a "Broadcom 570x Gigabit 
> Integrated Controller", which Ethereal lists as "b57w2k10 Broadcom 
> NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Driver".

Never mind - I asked that because I saw "wireless" and immediately 
thought of the problems with capturing wireless traffic on Windows, but 
that's *not* what you're doing.

> I thought, when I tested this briefly last night, that I had seen both 
> outgoing and incoming packets. But I haven't changed anything today, and 
> now I only see the outgoing packets, no matter what I try.

Perhaps you were seeing some broadcast or multicast packets from the 
cable modem, but no unicast packets?