Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Not possible to capture packets on win32 on latest svn build?

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:58:34 +0100
Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote:


Hi,
It looks like it's not possible to capture packets with the latest svn version of ethereal, atl east on win32. 


Fixed in 16516
In 16443, Guy has added a feature to exit Ethereal when the parameter check of the pre-scan of the command line parameters failed. 

This is a bad idea for two reasons:
1. The capture child uses a slightly different command line pattern, which might trigger this error even when it's used as intended. This caused the trouble. Win32 uses some slightly different parameters compared to unix, this is probably the cause for this "Win32 only" bug. This is fixed now.
2. If someone uses a bad command line parameter, Ethereal will exit without any message. Previously, Ethereal printed the parameter usage. Didn't fixed this, don't have much time :-( 

Regards, ULFL