Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Others' Traffic.. no HTTP?

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From: "Rob Stidman" <bigbrother@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:51:17 -0500
My problem also involved a Linksys hub acting the same way, and I solved my
problem, also, with a netgear.

~rob~
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Foxworth" <bfoxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] Others' Traffic.. no HTTP?


>
> > 2) the network is a switched network (which includes networks
> >    using switched hubs) and the port into which the machine
> >    running Ethereal is plugged is not set up to have traffic
> >    between other ports mirrored to it;
> >
> >
> > I suspect the most likely explanation is 2).  Bear in mind that, as
> > noted, there are "hubs" that are really switches, called "switched
> > hubs", so the fact that the network uses a "hub" does not, in and of
> > itself, mean it's not switched.
> >
> [Bob Foxworth]  I just ran into this TODAY with a Linksys hub that
> happily said `hub' on the front panel, but behaved like a switch,
> when
> we could not see expected traffic. Just swapped it with an old
> Netgear
> and the capture then worked. The Netgear was a true hub.  It pays to
> not discard your old equipment I suppose...
>
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