Subject: RE: ethereal
To: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.org>
From: Mike Pelley <mike.pelley@coventus.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/21/1999 13:57:43
> > Only........ is this program scanning the WHOLE network your're on, i
mean
> > all traffic on the network and not only of yourself?
> > Cause there are a lot of results anybody knows about this?

> This is the standard behaviour of any network monitoring tool.

Unless of course you are plugged into a switch (as opposed to a hub) in
which case you will only see broadcast traffic or traffic with your mac
address (for ethernet networks) as the destination.

Mike.