Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Running Ethereal from a CD?

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From: Silivrenion <silivrenion@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:58:49 -0500
I dont want to install anything on the target system, I only want it
to run, as in all resources are contained and used from the CD

On 11/21/05, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim Hendrick wrote:
> > The only issue would be for Ethereal to "find" the packet capture library
> > (libpcap).
>
> You misspelled "WinPcap". :-)
>
> Only half a joke - UN*X systems come with a packet capture mechanism
> that can directly be used by libpcap, but Windows doesn't; it has NDIS,
> but you need to add a driver to get at it, and WinPcap does that.  The
> CD would have to install the driver the first time you ran Ethereal.
>
> (Finding wpcap.dll is easier - just install it in the same directory
> that contains ethereal.exe.)
>
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