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List:       ethereal-users
Subject:    Re: [ethereal-users] Packets not found
From:       Gilbert Ramirez <gram () xiexie ! org>
Date:       1999-08-30 14:32:22
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On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:11:04AM -0500, Philip Long wrote:
> 
> 
> Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > > > Your sniffing machine (computer A) is on the ethernet segment.
> > > > Your other computer (computer B) is on the ethernet segment.
> > >
> > > Yes.  Both on the same 100 base Tx;  Incidentally,  I've noticed that
> > > computer A (lyta, always running linux) can serve up ftp to computer B 
> (fang)
> > > at a sustained rate of 3500 KB/sec under linux, but when fang has to be 
> a
> > > win32 box, the transfer rate (both with Netscape 4.61 BTW) is only 1800
> > > KB/sec.
> >
> > So "lyta", not "fang", is the machine running Ethereal, K-Arp-Ski, and
> > "tcpdump" in this situation (as it's computer A, and Laurent used
> > "computer A" to refer to the sniffing machine)?
> 
> I've done it both ways with the same results.  Mostly I just see ARP 
> packets an
> the occasional apple talk, IPX, etc.

And these ARP, appletalk, and IPX packets are broadcasts, aren't they?
The device you are connected appears to be a switch.

--gilbert
 

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