Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 16103: /trunk/: capture_loop.c tethereal.c

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Hmmm, I don't know if it's a good idea to "hardcode" this message into 
> Ethereal.
>
> The 64 bit support is not there now, but it might be added in a WinPcap 
> 3.2 beta after the next Ethereal release is out.

That probably won't happen in the short term (i.e., it probably won't 
happen until the next release after this one comes out).  In the medium 
term, it might be useful to have it

	1) check whether you're running on 64-bit Windows, and not display the 
message if you're not

and

	2) check the version of WinPcap, and only display it for 3.1 and 
earlier versions.

That's not ideal, but, without a "pcap_supports_win64()" routine, we 
can't do the ideal, and issuing the message only for existing releases 
might be closer to the ideal.