Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Support for old Windows versions (9x, NT4) is silently crumbl

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:00:48 +1100
Guy Harris wrote:
> Andrew Hood wrote:
> 
>>And it has Token Ring, not ethernet.
> 
> 
> That's not a bug, that's a feature. :-)
> 
> (I.e., it lets you test whether WinPcap handles Token Ring correctly. 
> Does it?)

Recent versions don't. And I haven't had time to go back through the
WinPcap archives to find the last one that did.

I also have a PCCard Token Ring in my XP laptop, and WinPcap crashes if
I try to capture in promiscuous mode. And again I haven't had time to
find the last one that didn't crash.

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