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Not to ask the obvious,  but is this running in a switched
environment?

If so, you are seeing the traffic you should.

john

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 02:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Network Sniffers
> 
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I am trying to set up a sniffer so I can see what the users 
> are doing on the
> Internet and see if they are abusing the service.
> 
> To date I've install Ethereal and Ksnuffle but neither are 
> working as they
> should.
> 
> I can sniff traffic to and from the machine running the 
> software, but the
> rest of the network traffic is not visible.
> 
> According to all the documentation I found, the network cards 
> are put into
> promiscuous mode automatically by the software.  From what I 
> can see, it's
> almost as if the cards are not.
> 
> I've installed the software on RedHat 6.2 and 7.1 and used 2 
> different types
> of NICs on 2 different machines, and one is a 3Com 590.  
> Anybody know why I
> can't see everything???
> 
> What I want to do is generate a graph that will tell me how much
> NNTP traffic in being pulled down.  I know they are pulling down 
> VCD files and I
> am 99% sure this is causing the slow response, but I'd like 
> to have proof
> before I point fingers.  Ksnuffle looks like it will work, 
> but if someone
> else has another solution, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
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