[Ethereal-users] help needed

[nancy d wallace <nancyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i work for a school district and we are experiencing network bogg-downs (is
that a word)

i desperately need help setting up ethereal on my laptop to sniff out
traffic -- my router is directly connected to a 3com 3300 switch -- i would
like to set the laptop up to mirror the ports on the switch one at a time so
i can tell where the heavy traffic is coming from

is there anyone that can help simplify the steps to set up the software -- i
admit to knowing very little about this kind of software, but we desperately
need some help

i have set the ports up on the switch (one to be monitored and one to do the
analyzing -- 3com terms for this) -- i have loaded ethereal and received
messages that winpcap was needed -- i downloaded that and loaded it and now
whenever i execute ethereal, i don't know what to set

any help would be appreciated