Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Compiling Ethereal

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From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 20:55:05 -0600
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:57:09PM -0500, Jason House wrote:
> > I believe that I am using the wrong source for libpcap... I think that I
> > need WinPcap, but the server netgroup-serv.polito.it never responds...
> 
> No, that *is* the official source for WinPcap; it just happens to be
> unavailable on occasion (and available on other occasions - it was up
> yesterday, for example).
> 
> > Does anybody know of an alternate location that I can obtain the correct
> > file?
> 
> One mirror Fulvio Risso mentioned at one point was
> 
>         http://www.datanerds.net/~mike/netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/
> 
> which seems to be up right now.

I wonder, given that ethereal on Win32 is completely dependent on this,
would it be worthwhile for ethereal.com to mirror the winpcap stuff
locally?

-- Nathan

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