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ARP: can't see broadcast packets

System configuration:

  • Wireshark 3.2.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Wireless card in promiscuous mode

When I try to captture ARP packets I can notice two stange things:

  1. In the packet panel the ARP destination always contain my MAC address and not the word "Broadcast" even if within the packet the destionation address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
  2. I never see in the packet panel broadcast packets for IP addresses different than mine. In other words I can only see packet ARP request packet "Who has X?" where X is always my IP address (of course I can see my ARP replies)

ARP: can't see broadcast packets

System configuration:

  • Wireshark 3.2.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Wireless card in promiscuous mode

When I try to captture capture ARP packets I can notice two stange things:

  1. In the packet panel the ARP destination always contain my MAC address and not the word "Broadcast" even if within the packet the destionation address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
  2. I never see in the packet panel broadcast packets for IP addresses different than mine. In other words I can only see packet ARP request packet "Who has X?" where X is always my IP address (of course I can see my ARP replies) replies)

ARP: can't see broadcast packets

System configuration:

  • Wireshark 3.2.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Wireless card in promiscuous mode

When I try to capture ARP packets I can notice two stange strange things:

  1. In the packet panel the ARP destination always contain my MAC address and not the word "Broadcast" even if within the packet the destionation address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
  2. I never see in the packet panel broadcast packets for IP addresses different than mine. In other words I can only see packet ARP request packet "Who has X?" where X is always my IP address (of course I can see my ARP replies)

ARP: can't see broadcast packets

System configuration:

  • Wireshark 3.2.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Wireless card in promiscuous mode

When I try to capture ARP packets I can notice two strange things:

  1. In the packet packets panel the ARP destination always contain contains my MAC address and not the word "Broadcast" even if within the packet the destionation destination address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
  2. I never see in the packet packets panel broadcast packets for IP addresses different than mine. In other words I can only see packet ARP request packet "Who has X?" where X is always my IP address (of course I can see my ARP replies)

ARP: can't see broadcast packets

System configuration:

  • Wireshark 3.2.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Wireless card in promiscuous mode

When I try to capture ARP packets I can notice two strange things:

  1. In the packets panel the ARP destination always contains my MAC address and not the word "Broadcast" even if within the packet the destination address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
  2. I never see in the packets panel broadcast packets for IP addresses different than mine. In other words I can only see packet ARP request packet "Who has X?" where X is always my IP address (of course I can see my ARP replies)

ARP: can't see broadcast packets

System configuration:configurations:

  • Wireshark 3.2.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Wireless card in promiscuous mode

When I try to capture ARP packets I can notice two strange things:

  1. In the packets panel the ARP destination always contains my MAC address and not the word "Broadcast" even if within the packet the destination address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
  2. I never see in the packets panel broadcast packets for IP addresses different than mine. In other words I can only see ARP request packet "Who has X?" where X is always my IP address (of course I can see my ARP replies)