I installed w7 in a virtual machine! When i looked at my standard ethernet card i saw the same traffic as in my w7 computer. But when i connected the usb-ethernet card and installed the same driver as in my w7 computer i saw the PN-MRP traffic.
Hmmm, that is a bit unexpected.
When I said, "
That VM would probably be using different Windows 7 drivers than the drivers in use by the host Windows 7 OS", I was thinking of how VirtualBox (VB) handles network adapters. In my case, the host laptop's Wi-Fi is the main connection to a network, but the VM OS uses drivers for an
Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop (82540EM). I can select other network adapters to be emulated too. But if I added a USB NIC, I probably would have to install an additional driver to the VB VM just like you did.
All I can think of to explain the difference between the Wireshark captures of the W7 host and those of the W7 VM is 3rd party software. What antivirus tool are you using on the host? What happens if you install that AV tool into the VM?
I don't understand what
LSPs are, but I've run into some programs that won't work well together because of conflicts in the way LSPs are used within each app. Maybe some 3rd party software that is installed on the W7 host is filtering the traffic on any NIC being used.
I'm not familiar with VMware, but I assume that it installs one or more virtual NICs on the host computer. That virtual NIC might not be subject to the same LSP filters. The only way that I can explain the differences that you are seeing between the Ethernet NIC and the USB NIC inside the VM is - the VMware drivers might use more of a pass-thru for data for the Ethernet NIC - thus you are seeing the same poor Wireshark results.
These questions might best be handled in the forums for Wireshark and/or VMWare. If you happen to pursue the issue in one or both of those forums, kindly post a link to your thread(s) so that others finding this thread can complete the journey with you.
