Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Is there a recommended version of ethereal for windows 2000
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:07:08PM -0500, dbroggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm running Ethereal 0.9.7 on windows 2000 advanced server(fully patched,
> and new o/s install)
> When I start Ethereal I can ping anything on the net but my IE6 browser
> won't refresh until I stop ethereal and down and up my ethernet interface.
> Has anyone else seen this?
What type of interface are you doing this on?
If it's a dial-up interface, that's not guaranteed to work with WinPcap
(changing the Ethereal version probably won't help, as it's almost
certainly a WinPcap problem, not an Ethereal problem, and, as the
problem with WinPcap and dial-up interfaces is ultimately a Windows
problem, changing the WinPcap version probably won't help, either). See
http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.12
and
http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm
"Q-6: Can I use WinPcap on a PPP connection?
A: We have tested WinPcap on PPP connections under Windows 95, Windows
98 and Windows ME. In Windows 95, due to a bug in NDIS, WinPcap
sometimes resets the PPP connection. In Windows 98/ME this bug appears
to be corrected, and WinPcap seems to receive correctly, however it is
not able to send packets. Under Windows NT/2000/XP there are problems
with the binding process, that prevent a protocol driver from working
properly on the WAN adapter. The problem is caused by the PPP driver of
WinNTx, ndiswan, that doesn't provide a standard interface to capture."
