Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Understanding Source and Destination
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From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:23:30 +0200
On 3 jun 2010, at 22:13, Gillett, Martin wrote:

> I read this this, but it says " ...why do I see only packets to and from my machine..."
> 
> The machine, I ran Wireshark from, only shows up in the destination column . I would expect to also it in the source sometimes as well - no ?

One source of this kind of behavior are VPN clients. They nestle themselves into the IP stack and can mess up the capture mechanism in unexpected ways (even when they are disabled through their configuration settings). I *never* install VPN clients on systems that I need to capture on for that reason :-)

Of course this may not apply to your situation...

Cheers,
Sake