Re: [Ethereal-users] Please help me(microsoft- ds)

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Manoj Kumar wrote:
> My ethereal is flooded with microsft-ds and netbios packets moving 
> across various ip’s not related to me. Please help me.

Is that a problem because you don't want that traffic on your network, 
or is that a problem because you don't want to see that traffic, or is 
that a problem because you don't want to see any traffic other than 
traffic to and from your machine?

In the first case, I can't really help you - the people are probably 
using SMB (Microsoft's file sharing protocol) for a reason, and are 
unlikely to stop doing so.

In the second case, try a filter of

	not udp port 137 and not udp port 138 and not tcp port 139 and not tcp 
port 445

although that will also keep Ethereal from seeing that traffic to and 
from your machine.

In the third case, try turning promiscuous mode off - that way, the only 
traffic you'll see is traffic sent by and received by your machine 
(although, on Solaris, at least, you won't see any traffic sent by your 
machine) - or try using a filter of

	host {your host's IP address}

although that'll filter out ARP traffic and the like.