Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal on Windows XP

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From: "Bruce E. Stemplewski" <Bruce.Stemplewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:26:41 -0500
I have had no problem with XP and 0.9.8

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Thomas Wagner" <wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal on Windows XP


> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:31:35PM -0800, Thomas Wagner wrote:
> > Has anyone had success getting Ethereal 0.9.8 working under Windows XP?
> > I've installed the latest WinPcap (3.0).
> >
> > The problem seems to be specifying the Interface. I've tried several
> > numeric ports as well as the description of the Network card (e.g., 3Com
> > 3C918 integrated...).
> >
> > The error message indicates;
> > " The capture session could not be initiated  (Error opening adapter:
> > Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.).
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.11
>
> Note the Windows issues - in particular, note that WinPcap *does not
> work* on SMP machines, *and* that a machine with a multi-threaded
> processor is an SMP machine as far as software running on the machine is
> concerned.
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