At work I have a single processor pentium 2/350 with 96 meg of
dram, matrox millenium, two 3c59x 10/100 cards, and out of the box
redhat 6.0 with just a few things like ipchains & ipmasqadm added.
I loaded ethereal some time ago with this RPM
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181251 Jul 9 08:06
ethereal-0.6.3-0.i386.rpm
and its worked fine when monitoring eth0. Today I tried to monitor
things on eth1 for the first time and it fails to capture anything on
the segment. I can ping, telnet, etc to things on that segment so its
not a basic problem like wiring, etc. ethereal comes up but I get no
display after I start capture - the capture window and main window blank
out.
eth0 is 172.16.2.108/24, eth1 is 192.168.0.1/24, I have masqerading
enabled but it wouldn't have been active - the systems on 192.168.0.0/24
are routers to be configured and they wouldn't have been generating any
traffic.
Am I seeing things here? Is this a known bug? At home I have an amd
k6-2/350, 128 meg, matrox millenium, two 3c59x cards (I am in a hardware
rut, I know :-)) and this works fine - captures are great and this
system provides masquerade service for my whole lan. Both home and work
are running KDE.
Does this area need investigation? I pretty much never build a linux
box without throwing a second nic in and I am always fooling around
watching traffic. If its a known/suspected problem fork details and
maybe I'll try and duplicate the problems.
