Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] when did using ethereal on the windows 9x dial-up ppp adapt

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:24:21 -0800
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:19:56PM -0700, Richard A Painter wrote:
> at some point in the not-to-distant past with recent ethereal and winpcap 
> upgrades it has stopped working.  it does not capture any packets and is silent 
> (no error message).  i have noticed a few messages in this list that refer to 
> winpcap being disabled but no specifics as to when.
> 
> if it is disabled then why is there not some error message instead of
> silently not workiing?
> 
> what was the last versions of ethereal and winpcap that will work on the windows 
> ppp adapter?

WinPcap 2.3 was the last version that the WinPcap developers released
with PPP support.  Ethereal's ability to capture on a PPP interface is
based solely on libpcap/WinPcap's ability to capture on that interface.

If the problem is that you're capturing on a PPP link you aren't seeing
any packets, rather than getting an error, you should ask the WinPcap
developers why this is the case.