Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] cant capture packets on win xp

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:44:30 -0700
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:55:44AM +0100, John Ryan wrote:
> I downloaded the win xp binary of ethereal but it wont capture packets
		   ^^^^^^
> for me when i access web pages.  ive a dial-up 56k connection.  in the
				         ^^^^^^^
> capture box,

"Dial-up" usually mean "PPP", and WinPcap can't handle that on Windows
NT (Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1):

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.18

	http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm#Q-6