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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tcpdump does not work Date: 21 May 1997 09:06:10 -0500 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5luvgi$1av@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <5ls6ub$e52$1@sanson.dit.upm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41356 In article <5ls6ub$e52$1@sanson.dit.upm.es>, Javier Martin Rueda <jmrueda@diatel.upm.es> wrote: >Hi. > >I've noticed that when I run tcpdump under FreeBSD 2.2.1, I only get >packets addressed to my machine or broadcasted. Previous releases of >FreeBSD in the same machine got all packets, regardless of the >destination address. Has anybody else experienced this? No. Sounds like either your ethernet card is not being placed into promiscuous mode, or your network has become switched. What ethernet card are you using? --mark.