Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Interface Detection Problems

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:26:33 -0800 (PST)
Peter Nilsson said:
> Does anyone know what the following means?

It probably means, as per what the dialog box says, that:

> This might be a problem with WinPcap 3.0; you should try updating to
> a later version of WinPcap - see the WinPcap site at winpcap.polito.it

so...

> When I try to start a trace, this is what pops up as a warning.  I don't
> remember having these problems with Ethereal in the past, so this is odd.
> I do have WinPcap loaded as well (version 3.0).  Any thoughts?

...you should try updating to a later version than 3.0, i.e. one of the
3.1 beta versions.

Note the warning at the top of the WinPcap installation page - un-install
3.0 and reboot before installing the 3.1 beta.