Hi.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 02:43
> To: pcguy
> Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ethereal-users] Win9x problems
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:17:03PM -0500, pcguy wrote:
> > Have a couple of problems and question regarding running 0.8.9 under
> > Windows9x. I have ethereal on a Win95 both that has two 3COM cards.
> > When I select the capture pull down to select which NIC I want to
> > capture from there are two lines both showing ELNK3. I have selected
> > the 1st which was not the one I wanted. However I can not click on
> > the second entry or if I try to it appears ethereal still starts the
> > capture using the other NIC.
> >
> > I wound up having to unbind the 2.02 Network Packet Driver from the
> > first NIC. That way there was only one ELNK3 showing up in the drop
> > down list. Is there any way of correcting this problem?
>
> I think this question was asked here a short while ago; I didn't know
> the answer then, and still don't, but Fulvio Risso (one of the
> developers of the code Ethereal uses to capture packets on Windows
> 9x/NT) might.
>
> Fulvio, if you have a machine with more than one network card of a
> particular type, is there any way to arrange that libpcap, on 9x,
> provide names for each of the cards that allow an application to open
> either one of them with that name?
Unfortunately, network cards are accessed by name. Since Win95 reports the
same name for both NICs, there is no way (at the moment) to distinguish
among them. In other words, you can only capture from one of them.
Cheers,
fulvio