netstat question

[Ed Greshko]

zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
> ---- Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
>> 
>>> On to my next problem. Why can't this FC6 box see any http traffic
>>> from a Windows Vista box on my local network when it is obviously
>>> connecting to various web sites? I'm using Wireshark and yes, I have
>>> opened up the firewall. I can see ICMP traffic and other protocols
>>> from the Windows box and I can see http traffic from my FC6 box.
>> Is your FC6 box acting as a router in your network?  Or, are both the 
>> Windows box and FC6 connected to a switch?  If the latter, then don't
>> expect to see much traffic from the Windows host since a switch
>> prevents that.  You will a small amount of traffic from the Windows box
>> in the form of "broadcast" traffic.
> 
> Both the Windows box and the FC6 box are connected to my router, a
> Linksys WRT54G that I have flashed with DD-WRT so that I can use it as a
> DHCP and DNS server for my local network.
> 
> So everything is working as it should? If I point the Windows IE at my
> Apache server on my FC6 box, I still would expect to see the http traffic
> but I don't. How is this supposed to work?

Well if you have your Windows box looking at your apache server on your FC
box then you should see the traffic.  Maybe your filters are not set correctly.