Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Does Ethereal for NT with WinPcap does support PROMISCOUS mode?

["Vlad-Andrei Dorobantu" <vdorobantu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I downloaded the last Ethereal for NT and installed on my NT 4.0 (SP6) 
computer with the WinPcap packet driver. It’s the best and fastest NT 
analyzer, better that “Analyzer” tool.

But the problem is that I monitor only the packets intended for my computer 
MAC address (except BROADCAST and MULTICAST packets). I don’t know if there 
are active hubs (it could be a possibility). 3COM are telling (on the web 
site) that my NIC should support the PROMISCOUS mode.

I believe that on NT, the PROMISCOUS mode couldn’t be set as easy as in UNIX 
with the "ifconfig eth0 promisc”). Meanwhile, I found some basic analysing 
programs that turn on the PROMISCOUS mode on Windows. I will send you these 
programs.

* Does Ethereal for NT support PROMISCOUS mode?

* Are there a way to control if the NIC is in PROMISCOUS mode (3COM provides 
no GUI configuration panel for the NIC)

Please answer me.


Best regards,
Vlad




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