Re: cannot set ethernet card into promiscuous mode

[Alexander Banthien <alexander@parentpay.com>]

Hi,

thanks for the help. Indeed. I had not thought of that: The hub I was 
using was a built in hub into my Vigor 2600 DSL router.

After using a plain old hub I could see all my packets.

TNX, ALexander

Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Alexander Banthien wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble with two of my Debian boxes in that I cannot run 
> > e.g. ethereal on either of them (2.4.18-bf2.4 and 2.2.19pre17) in 
> > promiscuous mode. I need to sniff around in my net but am only able to 
> > see packets either originting from or detined to the Debians.
>
>
> Are you on a switch or a hub? If it's a switched network you'll only be
> able to see traffic to and from that machine. Some high-end switches can
> mirror traffic from one or more ports to one port for monitoring.


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