Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] PPP, zonealarm

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:34:39 +0100
On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 4:23 am, Joe Acquisto wrote:
> I noted the posts on W2k and PPP.
>
> 1 - On win98 (winpcap 2.3) I can capture packets on the PPP adapter
> (dial up networking).  Is it not supposed to do this?
>
> 2 - I was tasked with a challenge to monitor a dial up connection
> with ZoneAlarm active.  This brings up a question in my mind as to
> how winPcap and ZoneAlarm mingle (or not) and what I should expect,
> running ethereal and ZoneAlarm at the same time.  I guess I'm going
> toward - can I count on ZA to block all packets?  If I see "leakage"
> is this due to a ZA fault or because ethereal/winpcap are looking on
> the "wrong side" of the firewall?
>
> As you can see, I don't have a clue.
>
> joea.

FYI, someone recently had a problem running Ethereal 0.9.13 with ZA, 
probably due to the new ADNS library usage. You should be aware that 
0.9.12 and 0.9.13 may behave differently.

-- 
Richard Urwin