Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal Questions.

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:41:12 -0700 (PDT)
Vishal A Charegaonkar wrote:

> I have downloaded Ethereal Version 0.99.0 for Windows and I have two
> questions related to its usage.

Then the questions should probably just be asked on ethereal-users (or
wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, as per the recent move and name change).

> I am planning to use Ethereal Tool on Windows 2003, 64 Bit version. Can I
> know, if this is a supported platform?

Ethereal on Windows is built as a 32-bit x86 application; it might work,
but slowly, on IA-64 systems, but should work well on AMD64/EM64T ("x64")
systems.

If you want to capture packets, however, you will need the 4.0 alpha 1
version of WinPcap; older versions of WinPcap don't support 64-bit
Windows.  Note that the 4.0 alpha 1 version supports AMD64/EM64T, but
*not* IA-64.

> I need to use this tool with 'Use Multiple Files" option selected as
> 'capture option'. But whenever this option is selected, Ethereal crashes.
> (I see existing bug at your site,
> http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=968).  Is there any
> workaround or temp. fix available for this?

It's still listed in the Wireshark bug database:

    http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=968

without any workaround or fix listed.


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