Hi,
Yes of course I meant Q5.4. I must have made a mistake when copying the link.
It seems that the problem has disappered now for D.Palckova. I just received a mail:
<I installed all software again on new clear computer and all is OK .
Regards,
Martin
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Från: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Till: Martin Regner <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Kopia: dplackova@xxxxxxx <dplackova@xxxxxxx>; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Datum: den 30 juli 2002 08:40
Ämne: Re: SV: [Ethereal-users] "parse error"
>On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:18:53AM +0200, Martin Regner wrote:
>> You are using WinPcap 2.3 so I assume it is not the problem I've had earlier.
>> http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.3
>
>Did you mean
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.4
>
>"Q 5.4: I'm entering valid capture filters, but I still get "parse
>error" errors.
>
>A: There is a bug in some versions of libpcap/WinPcap that cause it to
>report parse errors even for valid expressions if a previous filter
>expression was invalid and got a parse error.
>
>Try exiting and restarting Ethereal; if you are using a version of
>libpcap/WinPcap with this bug, this will "erase" its memory of the
>previous parse error. If the capture filter that got the "parse error"
>now works, the earlier error with that filter was probably due to this
>bug. The bug was fixed in libpcap 0.6; 0.4[.x] and 0.5[.x] versions of
>libpcap have this bug, but 0.6[.x] and later versions don't.
>
>Versions of WinPcap prior to 2.3 are based on pre-0.6 versions of
>libpcap, and have this bug; WinPcap 2.3 is based on libpcap 0.6.2, and
>doesn't have this bug."