Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Irda

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:07:31 -0800
Jaap Keuter wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Kota wrote:

Hello!

I have a problem!
On your site I can see some remarks about Ethereal support IrDA protocol.
I want to see on IrDA protocol but I can not select IrDA device on my
notebook. Notebook have integrated irda unit and this unit perfectly
work with my phone.
OS WIn2000K
Ethereal version 0.10.13
WinPcap version 3.1 beta 4

Best regard
Kotenev Yury

Hi,

This is an interesting snippet from the dissecor source code

8<-----------------
 * The plugin operates both offline with libpcap files and online on supported
 * platforms. Live dissection is currently available for Linux-IrDA
 * (irda.sourceforge.net) and for Windows if the Linux-IrDA port IrCOMM2k
 * (www.ircomm2k.de) is installed.

Ulf Lamping added that to the page on IrDA capture on the Ethereal Wiki:

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/IrDA

and I added some additional links - it appears that, on Windows, you need to have the IrCOMM2K driver installed, as well as a patched version of WinPcap.

Jan, does the patched version of WinPcap require the IrCOMM2K driver to be installed even if you're *not* going to capture on an IrDA device? If not, it might be worth trying to get the patches to WinPcap into the main WinPcap release, just as there's DAG-card support in it, so that users don't have to install a patched WinPcap to capture on IrDA interfaces (the patched version is based on WinPcap 3.1 beta 3, but the current version of WinPcap is the final 3.1 release).