Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Is there a recommended version of ethereal for windows 2000

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From: David Broggy <dbroggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:15:53 -0500
I'm connected to a cable modem. I'm using a 3com 10/100. I had it working
before I reloaded my o/s with a prior version of Ethereal. I'm using 0.9.5
on my win2k laptop. Maybe I should try that version, unless you suggest this
may still be related to the winpcap driver.




-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:23 AM
To: dbroggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Is there a recommended version of ethereal
for windows 2000?


On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:07:08PM -0500, dbroggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm running Ethereal 0.9.7 on windows 2000 advanced server(fully patched,
> and new o/s install)
> When  I start Ethereal I can ping anything on the net but my IE6 browser
> won't refresh until I stop ethereal and down and up my ethernet interface.
> Has anyone else seen this?

What type of interface are you doing this on?

If it's a dial-up interface, that's not guaranteed to work with WinPcap
(changing the Ethereal version probably won't help, as it's almost
certainly a WinPcap problem, not an Ethereal problem, and, as the
problem with WinPcap and dial-up interfaces is ultimately a Windows
problem, changing the WinPcap version probably won't help, either).  See

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.12

and

	http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm

"Q-6: Can I use WinPcap on a PPP connection?

A: We have tested WinPcap on PPP connections under Windows 95, Windows
98 and Windows ME.  In Windows 95, due to a bug in NDIS, WinPcap
sometimes resets the PPP connection.  In Windows 98/ME this bug appears
to be corrected, and WinPcap seems to receive correctly, however it is
not able to send packets.  Under Windows NT/2000/XP there are problems
with the binding process, that prevent a protocol driver from working
properly on the WAN adapter.  The problem is caused by the PPP driver of
WinNTx, ndiswan, that doesn't provide a standard interface to capture."
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