Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] problems with wireless sniffing on Windows

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:34:48 -0700
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:17:59PM -0400, Jamie Palmer wrote:
> Has anyone experienced problems with sniffing in promiscuous mode over a
> wireless lan using Windows NT/2000/XP, LibPCAP and Ethereal?

If so, you'll probably have the same problem with sniffing in
promiscuous mode over a wireless LAN with NT (including NT 5.0 a/k/a
"Windows 2000" and and NT 5.1 a/k/a "Windows XP" or "Windows .NET
Server"), WinPcap, and WinDump.

I.e., it's probably either a WinPcap problem or a driver problem.  Try
it with WinDump in promiscuous mode (note that WinDump runs in
promiscuous mode by default) and, if it happens with WinDump as well,
report it to the WinPcap developers as per

	http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm