Re: [Ethereal-users] Trouble capturing packets

["Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Hicks wrote:

> I've run through most of the FAQ's and sifted through a few other forums
> as well, but none of the prescribed solutions seem to work.  When I open
> Ethereal I can view all of the available capture interfaces, and I've
> identified each of them, two wireless and one ethernet and none of them,
> when connected, can capture packets using winpcap or ethereal.  I was
> however able to capture traffic over each interface using WinDump -p
> from the command line.

WinDump uses WinPcap, so if you can capture on a given interface with
WinDump, you can capture packets on it with WinPcap.

"windump -p" captures with promiscuous mode *OFF*, and many 802.11 drivers
on Windows don't support capturing with promiscuous mode on.  If "windump
-p" works and "windump" without "-p" doesn't, try turning promiscuous mode
off in Ethereal and see if that works.