Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Question Regarding New Version

["Ronnie Sahlberg" <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Netstumbler is doing it the same way as Sniffer Wireless and some other
commercial products
have done for the windows platform :  They have written their own drivers
for the network card
instead of using the vendors or generic windows version.

Ethereal developers neither have time nor motivation to start writing
network card drivers
for the W32 platform, or any other platform for that matter.

Linux and BSD kernel network driver developers have made it possible to get
this information
from the operating system. Windows have not.


This is not something ethereal developers can do much about.  Instead,
contact the vendor for your network card and convince them to provide
special versions of their drivers that enables WinPCAP to get these packets.
Its a driver problem, not an ethereal problem.

Or, use Linux or BSD.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Cabell"
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Question Regarding New Version


> My question is how is net  stumbler doing this?
>
> Dale Cabell