What about tcpdump, does it capture? What happen if you run it as root, can you capture? is /dev/ifname readable by the user you are trying to capture with?
On 2/18/07, William Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Don't know if this is the correct board to put this too but hear goes > anyway. > I am having problems listening for packets on my Sun Machine. > > I have a F5 BIGIP switch on which I mirrored the traffic port(i.e.9) to > another port 16 for listening and tracing. In port 16 bi run a cable to my > Sun Solaris V440 machine. On this machine I simply plumb the interface to > where the cable is, give it a dummy ip address,netmask and broadcast address > and bring it up. Issue is when I run Tshark I see no packets. > > Any ideas on what I have done wrong or even some tricks. When I connect my > laptop instead of Sun server and run wireshark , then I can see packets that > I want. I don't even give the laptop interface card a ip address, netmask and > broadcast address and it still works. > > William -- This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself. -- Marshall McLuhan _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
