Wow, another TR guy! ;) To the best of my knowledge, the ONLY cards that can do sniffing on tokenring under Linux are the IBM PCI Olympic cards. This is also the same as the IBM Cardbus tokenring cards (which is really convienent).
I'm a bit surprised you even got the madge working -- I've never see one function correctly, here. -m On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:09:39AM -0500, Phil N wrote: > This does not pertain to this case. It's a very vanilla 16Mbit token > ring hub (older 3Com). I have a Network Associates Sniffer that is on > the same ring with the same type of Madge card and it is working well. > The problem is that I am looking for specific traffic that needs to > trigger a program to run when it is seen so I wanted to use > Linux/tcpdump. That way I have things like nslookup available to me. > > > > Likely you have a switched network. > > > > ...or a 10/100 hub: > > > > http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q4.1 > > > > Perhaps an entry on this should be in the tcpdump FAQ as well. > > - > This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at > http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html > To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe -- If an S and an I and an O and a U With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do But to go commit siouxeyesighed. -- Charles Follen Adams, "An Orthographic Lament" - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
