Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Ethereal and Cabletron 10/100 SmartSwitch

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From: "Asghar Hosseini" <asgharh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:40:48 +1000
Dear Sir/madam
 
First forgive me for my poor english. I want to say that Ethereal is very nice monitoring program and was quite easy to install. I have three PCs at home which are mainly use them for my experimentation. I tested Ethereal  successfully in my network  both in Ethernet and Token Ring  enviroments . Anyhow, I borrowed a Cabletron switch from my work and connected to my network. As this switch is Ethernet technology, I made sure that Ethereal is capturing ethernet packets. But when I turn on switch , I do not see any activities in Ethereal window and I know that switch is only working  in unicast manner ( If I am not mistaken ). I have refered to Ethereal user's Guide ( by Richard Sharpe )  and found a topic "Capturing in the presence of Switches and Routers", but I could not find any information under this topic.
 
My questions are:
 
1) Do you know anything about this part of  User's Guide which is missing?
2) what do I have to do in Ethereal in order to detect the switch initial startup behaviour ( like reading the MAC address of this switch ) ?
 
Regards
 
Asghar