Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] I captured nothing, help.

["Gisle Vanem" <giva@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

> If you are saying that WinPcap 3.0 alpha4 (the current version) doesn't
> work on Windows XP, have you told the WinPcap developers about this?  If
> not, be aware that they will probably eventually stop offering WinPcap
> 2.3 for download, and if the final version of 3.0 doesn't work on XP,
> that'll mean there won't be a version of WinPcap available for Windows
> XP, so you *should* tell the WinPcap developers about this if you
> haven't already done so.

I'm using WinPcap 3.0 alpa 4 with Ethereal 0.9.8 and have no problems.
I also run Win-XP (SP1). I even compiled my own packet.dll and wpcap.dll
from latest libpcap tar-ball.

Some of the problems users have may be caused by the \Device name change
from 2.3 to 3.0. It used be "\Device\xx", but is now "\Device\NPF_xx".

Ethereal calls pcap_lookupdev(), so it shouldn't matter. But other programs
that hard-codes the "\Device\" part and appends the "xx" from WinSock 2 API, will
fail (WS2's GetAdaptersInfo() still uses the "\Device\xx" form).

Gisle V.

# rm /bin/laden 
/bin/laden: Not found