Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] WinPcap_3_1_beta_3 and Ethereal 0.10.6 works on Win XP Pro SP2, Firewall disabl

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey S. Johnson wrote:

>             For what it’s worth, I spent part of this evening trying to 
> get Ethereal 0.10.6 executable to work on Win XP SP2.  The regular 
> downloaded version of WinPCap 3.0 did not play well.  Ethereal could not 
> find any network adapters (blamed WinPCap).  When I uninstalled WinPCap 
> 3.0 and tried the WinPCap 3.1 Beta 3,  I could identify my adapters and 
> begin capturing packets.

Perhaps it was justified in blaming WinPcap, then. :-)

You might want to ask about the WinPcap developers about this:

	http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm

and, if the problem is that WinPcap 3.0 can't handle XP SP2 but WinPcap 
3.1 beta 3 can, suggest that they put this in the WinPcap FAQ.