Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with ethereal in WinXP

["Loris Degioanni" <loris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WinPcap is the problem.
Windows XP requires NDIS5 compliant network drivers, and the packet driver
of winpcap currently exports an NDIS3 interface for backward compatibility.
We will try to fix it as soon as possible.

Loris.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Evans, TJ" <tjevans@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with ethereal in WinXP


> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:54:38AM -0400, Evans, TJ wrote:
> > I am evaluating WinXP, and Ethereal seems to disagree with it <atleast
in my
> > case>.
>
> Before concluding that Ethereal is involved, try using WinDump:
>
> http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/
>
> If that also fails to capture on any interfaces, then the problem is
> probably that WinPcap disagrees with Windows NT 5.1^H^H^H^H^H^HXP, not
> that Ethereal disagrees with WinPcap.  Microsoft may well have yet again
> "improved" some part of the networking code in such a way as to cause
> WinPcap to fail.
>
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