Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Packet capture halts.

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:23:16 -0800
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:11PM -0600, McNutt, Justin M. wrote:
> Incidentally, it appears that when tcpdump fails (and BTW, I get *zero*
> packets from the kernel when it fails), there are about 100 dropped packets,
> three overruns, and a couple of frame errors on the eth1 device.  The RX
> packets no longer count up.

What happens if you run Ethereal or tcpdump with promiscuous mode turned
off?