Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] strange behaviour of tethereal with Lucent-orinoco cards

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:59:15 -0700
Juan Carlos Martin Severiano wrote:


I don't know whether this is a bug of ethereal, pcap (it also happens
with tcpdump),


As it happens with tcpdump, that means it's not an Ethereal problem.
It's also probably not a libpcap problem, as libpcap uses standard mechanisms for requesting promiscuous mode. 


or the orinoco driver.
It's probably a problem either with the Orinoco driver - or possibly with the Orinoco firmware. I think I've seen anothe message on the list reporting problems with promiscuous mode and duplicate packets, but I don't remember whether it was with Orinoco cards, and don't remember what OS it was with, but if I'm remembering correctly and if it was with Orinoco cards on an OS other than Linux, it *might* be a firmware problem (i.e., in that case, two different drivers are having the same problem, so it might be a card problem).