Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: TCP Packets

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:57:35 +0900
Hi Darryl,

At 08:35 AM 10/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>We recently noticed that if we use a package called ethereal to sniff
>packets, that we dont see any tcp packets.  The feeling was that there
>was a problem with ethereal.  I installed another package called snort
>and notice that I dont see tcp packets there either.  I have an analyzer
>on my pc that looks at the same network and tcp packets are abundant. 
>Is there any way on Du4.0f to keep tcp packets from being visible?  

Are you seeing any packets at all in Ethereal? It seems unlikely that there
are problems of this nature with Ethereal, as I use it on Linux and Windows
NT and it has no problems capturing TCP segments.

Do you have libpcap installed?

>Ideas....suggestions appreciated.
>
>-- 
>Darryl Cook
>Systems Programmer
>Computer Science Dept
>Appalachian State University
>Boone, NC 28608
>
>828-262-2296
>dlc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
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