Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Missing 50% of packets

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From: "Jack Nerde" <jnerde@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:10:06 -0700
Hardware in use:
IBM ThinkPad T40 w/Intel Pro/1000 MT
The scenario: I have the above noted laptop and an IBM desktop connected via a switch. Ethereal is running on the laptop. A piece of software is running on laptop, listening on a socket and receiving incoming packets. A different program runs on the desktop and sends packets to that port (using TCP).
I have the following capture filter in use "host a.b.c.d" (where a.b.c.d is the IP address of the desktop). 

When I do this using ethereal 10.5a, no problem, I capture everything.
When I do this using ethereal 10.6 ... it only captures packets in 1 direction (incoming).
If I reverse the programs, so that the Laptop is sending packets to the Desktop (but I still run ethereal on the laptop), then ethereal only seems to capture outgoing packets. 

Any ideas?

Jack

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