Hello,
I have had some problems loading the latest ethereal onto my windows 2000 professional PC. We have a Linux guy here in our lab who stays up on the latest releases of Ethereal, and I have not had any problems with the last five or six times I upgraded my etherreal analyzer over the last year on the same machine.
I removed my previous version of ethereal (9.6). I installed the latest version of winpcap (3.0 beta). I rebooted my machine. I then installed ethereal 9.11. Both applications appeared to run fine. When I attempted to run ethereal, the window for the application would not appear. If I hit control-alt-delete, I could see my CPU was at 100%, and 98-99% of it was the ethereal process. This was still true after 5 minutes, even though no window had appeared! I had no other applications running on my PC.
To attempt to correct this I uninstalled ethereal 9.11. Did a search on ethereal on my PC and removed any files I found, and then reinstalled the application again. I still got the same results. I finally ended up back reving to ethereal 9.6 again, at which point the application came back up.
I was told another person in our group had a similar problem. Have you had any similar issues reported with installing ethereal 9.11 on a Windows 2000 machine? Could you look into the issue.
Thanks again for making such a great product! I find it much more useful than Sniffer Pro for the work I do.
Ken
Ken Avery
ENET Routing
Enterasys Networks Inc.
lab: 603-337-0305
email: kavery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx