Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Missing Protocol Information

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:11:37 -0700 (PDT)
Lance Wakeman said:
> During a capture, the "Ethereal: Capture" window appears with updates to
> the protocols being captured and percent of total.  When the capture is
> complete, the main window is missing source and destination addresses, and
> the protocol is "unknown."  The info field is "WTAP_ENCAP = 1" for every
> packet captured.

Un-install all versions of Ethereal that you have installed, and, after
you've done that, make sure that there are no files on your system with a
name of the form "wiretap-*.dll", where "*" matches any string (use the
"Find" option from the Start menu to find them).

Then try re-installing 0.10.4.