Oddly, while the VPN was broken, the Ethereal/WinPcap worked fine.
I finally fixed the problem today by reinstalling the network card's
drivers. For future reference, it was a Realtek TRL8139/810x NIC.
-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:53 AM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Conflict with Cisco VPN?
Mark McWhinney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I installed Ethereal 0.99 / WinPcap 3 then upgraded to the
current
> Wireshark 0.99.5 / WinPcap 4 on my Windows XP Pro laptop.
>
> I have been using Cisco VPN for a while without any trouble. Now, the VPN
> does not work on my network card but does work with my Wireless
connection.
>
> Is it possible that Ethereal/Wireshark/WinPcap damaged a driver or
something
> else that would muck up my TCP packets?
>
From several years of experience: In the world of computers, everything
is possible ;-)
> I uninstalled Ethereal/Wireshark/WinPcap and re-installed the Cisco VPN
> client but am still getting the same results.
>
> Any tips or pointers?
>
>
See: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/InterferingSoftware
You may better ask the WinPcap team about this. Wireshark is very
certainly *not* the cause of your problems, but WinPcap probably is.
Regards, ULFL
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