Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Adding interface in Ethereal

[kavita <kavita@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Harris,

   I am trying to monitor IP traffic on Windows XP OS.  But still 
Ethereal is not showing me the dial-up interface.  Moreover when I tried 
to connect to the internet via reliance data card (R-connect) it was 
showin that interface and ethereal was able to capture the traffic. But 
when I used mobile phone to connect to the internet it was not showing 
me the interface corresponding to that and I was unable to collect any 
IP traffic.

Do you have any reason for this?

Regards,
Kavita


Guy Harris wrote:

> kavita wrote:
>
> >      I am trying to monitor IP traffic over a dial-up connection to 
> > the Internet.  Does anyone have answer to the following question.
> >
> > 1.  How to specify dialup interface in  Ethereal?
>
>
> Nobody has an answer to the question if it's phrased in that fashion, 
> as the answer depends on the OS on which you're running.
>
> On many UN*Xes, the adapter will have a name such as "ppp0".  It might 
> not be possible to open it, and thus the interface might not show up 
> in the drop-down list in the "capture options" dialog, until the 
> connection has been established.
>
> On Windows, you should use WinPcap 3.1; see
>
>     http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/PPP#head-233856b226f578c69673cf58c051c9164ff0bafb 
>
>
> for details.
>
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