Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.18 question...

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
> I'm using ethreal 0.8.18 on a Red Hat 7.1 system with a libpcap 0.4-39;
> well, I can grep only packets to/ from the machine I'm on and
> broadcasts; the NIC is a D-link 500TX ; I'm connected to a 10M hub.

Switching hub, or non-switching hub?  If it's a switching hub, even if
the card *is* in promiscuous mode, it won't see traffic other than
traffic that the host directs towards its port on the hub, which will
probably be only unicast traffic to that host or broadcast/multicast
traffic.

(Yes, 10BASE-T switching hubs exist - or, at least, existed at one time.)