Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal doesn't work (win98se + juno)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:25:14 -0700
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:46:00PM -0700, lupusdacicus wrote:
> I am using win98se and I am trying to use yahoo messanger and ethereal/windump, while having winpcap installed
> 
> - I cannot use yahoo messanger anymore. I have tried reinstalling it sevaral
> times. It is still not working. I reaintalled the whole windows again, but
> yahoo messanger is still not working.

I suggest you ask Yahoo about that.

> -ethereal tcp/ip analyzer (www.ethereal.com/  ) is not working

There's very little we, the Ethereal developers, can, in general, do
about problems that are reported as "Ethereal isn't working"; there are
many, many ways in which it can "not work", so we'd have to know what
it's doing *instead* of working.

> When I was using AOL, I didn't have problems in using yahoo messanger, so
> after thinking and eliminating some other possibilities, I think it may have
> something to do with the JUNO connection program. Is there anyway that such
> a program can interfere with programs like yahoo messanger and
> ethereal ?

If the Juno software includes code that plugs into the OS's networking
stack, it's conceivable that it'd do that.  I suggest you ask the Juno
people about it.

> Windump is not capturing anything either, nor any other
> tcp/ip traffic captruring tools I could get my hands on.

So when you say Ethereal "is not working", do you mean it doesn't
capture packets?

> When trying 
> "windump -d"
> 
> I get:
> 
> D:\windump.exe : listening on PPPMAC
> <000>     ret  #96
> 
> 
> What does this mean ?

It means you didn't hold down the shift key on your keyboard when typing
the second "d" in "windump -d" - the flag to get a list of network
interfaces and, for the special debugging version of windump, debugging
information, is "-D", with a capital "D", not "-d".