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Why Can't Wireshark See Packets?

I have Win10.

I have three network adapters listed:

Ethernet Ethernet 2 Wifi

I disable the wifi and the ethernet 2 adapters and enable 'ethernet' and wireshark sees it as a working adapter I think, because it shows it on the list of available adapters and it shows a wavy line on it, too - doesn't that mean it has detected traffic?

So I ask it to capture packets. It neither sees nor captures any.

Works fine with the wifi when I enable it.

But sees nothing on the ethernet adapters.

What's wrong?

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Why Can't Wireshark See Packets?

I have Win10.Windows 10.

I have three network adapters listed:

Ethernet

  1. Ethernet 2
  2. Ethernet 2
  3. Wifi

I disable the wifi and the ethernet 2 adapters and enable 'ethernet' and wireshark Wireshark sees it as a working adapter I think, because it shows it on the list of available adapters and it shows a wavy line on it, too - doesn't that mean it has detected traffic?

So I ask it to capture packets. It neither sees nor captures any.

Works fine with the wifi when I enable it.

But sees nothing on the ethernet adapters.

What's wrong?

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Why Can't Wireshark See Packets?

I have Windows 10.

I have three network adapters listed:

  1. Ethernet
  2. Ethernet 2
  3. Wifi

I disable the wifi and the ethernet 2 adapters and enable 'ethernet' and Wireshark sees it as a working adapter I think, because it shows it on the list of available adapters and it shows a wavy line on it, too - doesn't that mean it has detected traffic?

So I ask it to capture packets. It neither sees nor captures any.

Works fine with the wifi when I enable it.

But sees nothing on the ethernet adapters.

What's wrong?