Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] no packets

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:05:12 -0800
Randy's Mail wrote:


	I am new to Ethereal and this group. I installed Ethereal with no errors,
but I don't see any packets when I do a capture.  I have two NICs and
Ethereal sees both of them, but I don't see any traffic during downloads on
either of the NICs. I am running XP Home w/SP2.


Are they Ethernet NICs, wireless NICs, or some other kind of NIC?
By default, Ethereal will capture in promiscuous mode; some wireless NICs don't capture any traffic in promiscuous mode: 

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.41