Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] problem detecting frame

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:21:54 -0800
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:15:56PM -0600, Bruce Waaso wrote:
> I'm a new user to Ethereal and starting using the product to uncover an
> issue receiving emails. I tested Ethereal inside my firewall and it seemed
> to work fine. I then moved my laptop outside my firewall and I get 90% of
> the packets being reported as ipv6 with src as 8.0.69.0 and dst as
> 0.38.143.14. 

Those are IPv4 addresses, not IPv6 addresses.

Are you sniffing on an Ethernet interface, or on some other type of
network interface?  On what operating system are you running Ethereal?