Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Using with a switch
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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:52:15 +0200
> 
> Our network runs with a switch.  Can Wireshark pick up all the connected 
> stations?  I'm only seeing my own machine's traffic now.  Can that be 
> changed?  If so, how?
> 

No, unless you do some very nasty things (e.g. ARP poisoning, which can easily confuse your whole network).

See: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup and especially http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Ethernet for your options to change this.

Regards, ULFL

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