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Network Card Promiscuous Mode


From: Chris Halverson <chris.halverson () encana com>
Date: 7 May 2004 20:19:12 -0000



I have a technician in Barbados that is trying to troubleshoot some network tunnel problems and I wanted him to sniff 
the wire for what type of traffic is coming over the link.  He is using a laptop with Win XP and I wanted to know how 
to switch the network card into promiscuous mode to accept all the traffic comming over the link.  Is there a way to do 
this with a native windows interface or does it have to be done with third party tools?  Can you use the NETSH utility 
or again is it somewhere else?

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