Ethereal

Ethereal

can we captured packets from a network having host working on different platform ?

Ping frame

I've got a question: Im using Ethereal to see my network activity and to try it, I ping from one computer to another one. My ping data size is 2000 bytes but I see that the frames containing the ping request and reply have only 562 bytes. Why is that? Ethereal shows this: Frame 13 (562 bytes on...