Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: ethereal on Win XP

[Jens Hektor <hektor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Loris,

Loris Degioanni wrote:
> Note that not only Ethereal, but also windump and all the applications that
> rely on winpcap actually try to open every available device when performing
> a pcap_lookupdev(). This function uses the PacketGetAdapterNames() function
> of packet.dll, which tries to open every adapter it detects to get the
> description of the device. In practice, only valid and openable adapters are
> returned by pcap_lookupdev() under Win32.

thanks for the details. Still the question remains: why does windump
has no problem or why does ethereal has this problem.

Guy Harris has capitulated.

Could it be a "locale" problem (German XP Version) with ethereal ?
Note to say, that "tethereal -D" gives an empty list.
Is there any debugging option or version availabe.
Unfortunenately I cannot compile on this machine ...

Bet regards, Jens Hektor

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