The issue here is that the preference file does not contain the entries
that it is looking for. Just click on edit, preferences, and then change any
of the items under the protocol section. Then save the new configuration file.
After this the next time you launch Ethereal you will not get the secondary
DOS box.
Coleman Brumley wrote:
>When I start ethereal 0.9.8, I get
the following message:
>C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Application
>Data\Ethereal\preferences line 374:
No such preference "ncp.desegment"
>
>In a separate console
window. When closing ethereal, the console window
>lags stating
"Press any key to continue..."
>
>When I comment out that line,
the issue goes away. Another user in our
>office has several more
of these messages, mostly dealing the mgcp
>preferences, but also
including the ncp message from above.
>
>Does anyone know the root
cause of this and if just modifying the
>preferences file is the correct
solution?
I'm switching between different versions of Ethereal a
lot and then I get those warnings quite
often when using an earlier version
of Ethereal (for preference entries and protocols that has
been added after
the version I'm using).
Another reason can be that I have some own plugins
that I don't always have in the different plugin directories.
Your
collegue maybe hasn't the MGCP plugin installed right now.
When the
source code for a dissector is updated so that it doesn't use a certain
perference
anymore it can register it as obsolete with
prefs_register_obsolete_preference.
I guess that you will not get the
warnings if that is the case and if you are using an older
version of
Ethereal it can still use the preference setting you still have in the
prefrence file.
I don't understand why you get a warning for
"ncp.desegment" with Ethereal 0.9.8.
It seems that that preference setting
is valid for Ethereal 0.9.8.
I couldn't see that there has been any
changes lately for that preference entry.
Maybe there should be a
possibility to turn off these warnings for people that want to turn it off.
These warnings are normally not so useful for an ordinar user.
Regards,
Martin
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