> No.  If your network adapter is set to promiscuous mode, you 
> can get packets for all devices on your network.

Unless you're attached to a switch.  Switches use some logic to only
route traffic to the appropriate port (based on mac address, I assume),
so you don't see all the traffic flowing across the network.

Ethereal has an option to set the sniffer in promiscuous mode.

david


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