Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Xircom RE100 RealPort card not going into promiscuous mode

["Eddie Lawrence" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WinDump works!  I guess that rules out the NIC and WinPcap. Perhaps Ethereal
doesn't like something about Windows 2000?

Thanks


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Eddie Lawrence" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Xircom RE100 RealPort card not going into
promiscuous mode


> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:58:48PM -0400, Eddie Lawrence wrote:
> > If anyone has any ideas of how to troubleshoot this I'd appreciate
> > hearing from you.
>
> Try it with WinDump and, if that doesn't work, ask
> "winpcap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" about it - either
>
> 1) it's a WinPcap bug
>
> or
>
> 2) the card doesn't support promiscuous mode
>
> or
>
> 3) the card's driver doesn't let you put the card into
>    promiscuous mode.
>
> My suspicion is that the problem is not 1); if it's not 2), it might be
> 3).  You might want to ask Xircom^H^H^H^H^H^HIntel whether the W2K
> driver for the card allows you to put it into promiscuous mode.
>
> (Note:
>
> 1) I don't have that networking card on my home machine;
>
> 2) my home network has only my machine and my ADSL modem on it,
>    so there's no way to check whether promiscuous mode works on
>    the card I *do* have;
>
> 3) my work network is switched, so promiscuous mode doesn't make
>    a difference, so there's no way to check whether promiscuous
>    mode works there, either;
>
> so there are limits on how much help I can *personally* provide on this
> issue; I'd suggest that you not reply solely to me.)
>
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