Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] help with interface

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:20:13 -0800
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:05:16PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:46:50PM -0500, Oblio wrote:
> > I just installed Ethereal on my WinNT system, but I can't start a 
> > capture.  What should appear in the "interface" box?  Does it populate 
> > automatically
> 
> It does *if* you have interfaces that are reported by WinPcap.

...and if you're not running on an SMP machine; WinPcap doesn't support
SMP machines currently, and recent versions simply refuse to work at all
if they detect they're being used on an SMP machine.