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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
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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.