Re: Understanding Source and Destination

[Martin Visser <martinvisser99 () gmail com>]

If you are connected to a regular switch and do nothing else in general you
will just see broadcast and multicast packets from other computers. Refer to
http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q7.1 for more info.

Regards, Martin

MartinVisser99 () gmail com


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Gillett, Martin <
Martin.Gillett () nasittuq com> wrote:

>  I must have made a simple mistake or am misunderstanding something.
>
> I did a capture from a computer on a typical TCP/IP switched Network.
>
> When I look at the data, several computers on the network appear, but they
> either have packets leaving them or packets arriving at them, but not one
> computer, including the one I ran the capture on, show packets leaving and
> arriving from/to them ?
>
> Is there something in my capture preferences that would cause that ? I
> don't think I have any filters set. Or am I misunderstanding TCP ?
>
> Martin
>
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