Ethereal-users: Re: FW: [Ethereal-users] RE: Ethereal - Problems w/ notebook?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 01:52:54 -0700
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:23:35PM -0400, Mark Spencer wrote:
> I tried that many times .. both with promiscuous mode selected and
> unselected.  Ethereal never saw anything put broadcast and localhost
> traffic.

If you are doing an "Update list of packets in real time" capture, the
capture won't be done in promiscuous mode, *even if you specify it*,
unless either

	you have done a promiscuous-mode capture *and* saved your
	preferences afterwards

or

	you manually edit your preferences file
	("~/.ethereal/preferences" on UNIX-compatible systems; on
	Windows, it might be in "c:\.ethereal\preferences" or, if your
	system is set up so that your "home drive" and "home path" are
	set in the environment, in ".ethereal\preferences" under your
	home directory) and change the "capture.prom_mode" setting from
	FALSE to TRUE - or, if you have no preferences file, create one
	with "capture.prom_mode: TRUE" in it.

(The first of those two steps will do what the latter does, somewhat
more conveniently, although it'll save a bunch of other settings as
well.)