Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal does not capture all packets?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

spammy wrote:

> Is it possible that Ethereal does not capture all packets? I am sure
> that one of my client generate TCP traffic as well, but ethereal capture
> only Browser Election Requests or ARP, NBNS or DHCP messages. And no
> TCP/IP traffic . Why? Should I change some settings? The funny is that
> from other clients it captures TCP/IP as well. Thank you!

How is the network configured?  Are the machines to and from which 
you're trying to capture traffic plugged into a switch?  Are you 
capturing on some machine other than the clients, or are you running it 
on one of the clients?