[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 3:45 PM, Warren Auld wrote:

> The error message now says;
> "Couldn't initialize Windows Sockets: Bad pointer passed to
> WSAStartup"

That's bizarre, as we're just passing it a pointer to a variable on the 
stack.

Perhaps WSAStartup returns that error (WSAEFAULT) for reasons having 
nothing to do with the pointer; the only thing I can think of is that 
the version of Winsock in your Windows 98 system requires that variable 
to be bigger (a data structure with more elements) than it is on the 
system on which Ethereal was built (in which case perhaps we need to 
provide a different "highest version of Windows Sockets support that 
the caller can use" argument, or something such as that).