Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Token Ring Question

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:56:50 -0600
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:39:37PM -0600, lshepherd@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> I have Ethereal running on a Linux box with an IBM Token Ring card.  I have 
> this
> plugged into our main 16Mb ring between two routers.  The reason I am 
> writing,
> is that I am not seeing what I had expected on the Ethereal captures.  I 
> only
> see traffic to and from my Linux box and general multicast packets.  I do 
> not
> see any other traffic on the ring.  Is this normal, or is some special
> configuration needed on the Token Ring card?   Router to WAN: 10.4.1.2, 
> router
> to local LAN 10.4.1.5, and my Linux address, 10.4.1.84, all with a mask of
> 255.255.0.0.

The ibmtr cards cannot go into promiscuous mode.

The PCI token-ring cards can. (olicom, IBM PCI, and perhaps Madge, too).

--gilbert