Kevin

Ian does have a care4free regard for use of language <g>!

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Gerry
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"Kevin" <webman6@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23yDhegXDGHA.336@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Take it out to dinner and get it drunk. Oops, sorry, that was for women,
> not Network Interface Cards. My bad.
>
> "news" <news@care4free.net> wrote in message
> news:VfRq1QJ$lTtDFwNW@care4free.net...
>> Running a Dell Dimension 3000, with built-in LAN adapter.
>>
>> When running Suse Linux 9.2 on the machine, I tell Ethereal to operate
>> promiscuously, and I can see all the traffic on the LAN segment.
>>
>> When I run Ethereal under Win XP Pro (with all the updates), again with
>> promiscuous enabled, all I can see is broadcast traffic and any traffic
>> to/from the Dell.
>>
>> So it's obvious that the network adapter is not actually running
>> promiscuously under Win XP, even though I enabled it in Ethereal.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can persuade Win XP to switch the NIC into promiscuous
>> mode?
>>
>> --
>> Ian
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