The "some" problems you are talking about are that since a switch has no shared medium, with tcpdump you will see only your own traffic and broadcast traffic, not the traffic of other hosts (except the broadcast).
On 07/03/2003, at 15.54, Scott Borre wrote: >I am interested in what people recommend using to >sniff packets on a switch. I have heard that TCPdump >has some problems doing this. Thank you ahead of the >time for any assistance. > >Scott Borre > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more >http://taxes.yahoo.com/