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

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Bradley" <simonbrads@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Ethereal user support'" <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] Only Seeing Outgoing Packets, Part II


> Guy Harris wrote:
> > So you're not using any capture filter, right?
>
> Correct.
>
> Gianluca Varenni wrote:
> > have you tried capturing from another PC in the network?
>
> I hadn't, simply because I only had Ethereal installed on my development
> PC (the laptop). But I just installed it on this computer -- my desktop
> PC -- and connected to the hub, and this one can see outbound AND
> inbound traffic (as I would expect).
>
> So it definitely seems to be a problem with the laptop -- probably
> something weird going on with the network card or its driver? For
> reference, the laptop is a Dell Latitude D600, and the network card is a
> Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller (identified by Ethereal as
> "b57w2k10 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Driver").
>
> By the way, I just tried uninstalling and reinstalling Ethereal and
> WinPcap, but that made no difference.

Uhm, it definitely seems a problem with WinPcap on your laptop. Do you have 
any personal firewall/VPN client installed/running on the laptop?

Have a nice day
GV

> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
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