On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:42:21PM +0100, S. Ancelot wrote: > I would like to use ethereal to find which machine sends broadcasts on > my network, > how to do that with ethereal ?
Well, one way to do that might be to do a capture with Ethereal using the capture filter "broadcast"; when you stop the capture, it should show you all the broadcast packets on the network. You'd then have to look at the link-layer and network-layer addresses in those packets to see what machines are sending the broadcasts; translating those addresses to actual pieces of hardware may be harder, and there's not much Ethereal can do about that (at most, it can try to look up the link-layer addresses and tell you the names for those addresses, or the probable vendors of the machines or their networking cards, and try to look up the network-layer addresses and tell you the names for those addresses).
