Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] running wireshark on my network
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:43:29 -0600
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:55:50AM -0700, M Holt wrote:

> This is of course, is not possible, because as already mentioned, 
> Wireshark passively monitors traffic, but is not injecting traffic of 
> it's own.

The only exception to this is the default behavior of Wireshark to do 
DNS lookups on all of the IPs it sees.