Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Supported Networkcards

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:44:15 -0400
On 11:32 AM 8/12/2004, Voss Michael wrote:
>I search for a Supported Networkcard list (Type an name of cards).
>the problem is, that i can't see all tracepackets (VLAN ID) . I think my networkcard is not full supported.


It's not the network card.  Unless you were on a trunked port, you will not see the VLAN tagging.  The switch will strip this if you are on an "end user" port.  So if you want to see vlan tags, sniff on a trunked port.  i.e. switch port configured to carry multiple vlans.

hsb