Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] ethereal installation

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:26:15 -0500
Winsock 2 fixed a number of TCP/IP bugs in the original Winsock 1.1 that
shipped with Windows 95.  In my personal experience, it fixed some GroupWise
issues on Windows 95. Only in very rare cases have I heard of Winsock 2
"breaking" existing software.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Symons [mailto:msymons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:13 PM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] ethereal installation


> 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_WUNetwo
rkingTools/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


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