Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Promiscuous Mode - No Capture?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:23:45 -0700
Gregory M. Bednarski wrote:
Using release 0.10.6 and WinPcap 3.1 beta 3 - everything is fine, but I can't capture in promiscuous mode. Otherwise, I capture fine, but in promisc mode no packets seem to come through. I'm under WinXP SP-2 using an Intel Wireless 2100B/PRO adaptor (built-in to IBM Thinkpad). 

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q5.41
Everything used to work a while ago - was there some MS update that is disabling this?
Possibly. We, and the WinPcap developers, don't have any control over the code path below the WinPcap driver (the WinPcap driver itself is maintained by the WinPcap developers, but they're at the mercy of Microsoft and the wireless card driver writers). Something in that code path might have changed.