["Mark Symons" <msymons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I knew I had read this somewhere recently, and after a lot of
> searching: Winsock2.0 did not ship with (some/all?) releases of
> win95. 

Correct.  Win 98 shipped with Winsock2.  Winsock2 support was made available for Win95 as an update:

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows95/downloads/contents/WUAdminTools/S_WUNetworkingTools/W95Sockets2/Default.asp

> Some different site says that the NT4.0 version of this file will
> not work on win95 so don't try copying it from an NT machine, try
> the website. Good luck, it looks hairy to me :-(

Eeek!  Don't use the NT v4.0 version.  I used the Win 95 version for a long time and never had any problems at all.  And this was on quite a few PCs.

> Others will have to rule if this is really necessary for
> ethereal/winpcap, but I suspect it will at least get you
> going.

I cannot comment on this,  but there's other Win 95 software that requires Winsock2.  Just bear in mind that installing this update will force a reboot of your PC.

Mark Symons
Ipswitch, Inc
Augusta GA