Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] What does it mean to "Capture" packets

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From: Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:51:55 -0500
I have my ethereal running on a non-IP-bound NIC, on my Linux box. Can
you please explain your statement to me?

Thx,
Stef

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:40:17 +1000, ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> One of many many ways to spot such a NIC is trying to ping your host but sending
> the ping to a dummy/fake MAC address.
> If your NIC is in promisc mode  it will be passed through the NIC and
> your network stack will respond to the ping.
<snip>