Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: Trying to understand why Ethereal has problems under XP

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From: "Gianluca Varenni" <varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:18:40 +0100
Hi.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Hektor" <hektor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gianluca Varenni" <varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Solis, Clement"
<Clement.Solis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Trying to understand why Ethereal has problems under XP


> Gianluca Varenni wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to debug Ethereal to understand why it fails to list the
adapters
> >under XP, while "windump -D" works.
> >
> Fine.
>
> >To all the users with this problem, do you try "tethereal -D"?
> >It must return the same list as of "windump -D".
> >
> So here is my output, I have included version output:
> ------------------------
> C:\Temp\Giftschrank>windump.exe -D
> 1.\Device\Packet_{58634D63-6C4F-4607-AEB3-A1BBB4EA120A} (Intel
> 8255x-based Integ
> rated Fast Ethernet (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler) )
> 2.\Device\Packet_NdisWanIp (NdisWan Adapter (Microsoft's Packet
Scheduler) )
>
>
> C:\Temp\Giftschrank>windump.exe -V
> windump.exe version 3.6.2, based on tcpdump version 3.6.2
> WinPcap version 2.3, based on libpcap version 0.6.2
> Usage: windump.exe [-adDeflnNOpqStuvxX] [-B size] [-c count] [ -F file ]
>                 [ -i interface ] [ -r file ] [ -s snaplen ]
>                 [ -T type ] [ -w file ] [ expression ]
>
> C:\Programme\Ethereal>tethereal -D
>

As I expected.

>
> C:\Programme\Ethereal>tethereal --version
> tethereal: illegal option -- -
> tethereal 0.9.1, with GLib 1.3.2, with libpcap (version unknown), with
> libz 1.1.
> 3, with UCD SNMP 4.2.2
> ------------------------
>
> As you can see, the list from "-D" is just empty.
> tetheral does not give the version for libpcap.
> Could that be related to my problem ?

I don't think so.

>
> >Since I do not have this problem on my XP machine, I need some "testers"
who
> >have the above  mentioned problem ("windump -D" working but Ethereal
> >failing).
> >
> Alright, I am willing to do all possible tests includeing beta's and so
on.

Thanks.
Now I'm at the university, and I don't have the sources with me. As soon as
I arrive at home this evening, I will put a modified debug version of
tethereal available to you (either by FTP or HTTP, I don't know). Do you
have a fast Internet connection? Tethereal.exe is quite big.

GV