On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:09:55PM +0800, Surg Junk wrote: > A few days ago I noticed on the status page of my wireless connection that I > was constantly sending packets, far more packets than I was receiving. > Believing this to be suspicious I ran virus and spyware scans, disabled any > unnecessary services, ended any process I knew I didn't require but still > couldn't trace the cause of the leaky packets. > > I then used wireshark thinking this would definitely lead me to the source > of the packets but having ran the scan a number of times, it doesn't produce > any results. That's not to say wireshark isn't working. If I start up > internet explorer or irc, wireshark immediately captures and displays the > packets but if I just have wireshark capturing and nothing else running, I > can see the sent packets going up on the wireless connection status page but > nothing is captured.
On windows, wireshark has problems capturing on wireless interfaces. Maybe that is the problem. Please see http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup and then check the wireless link on that page. ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
