Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] PPP adapter disappeared with Ethereal 0.10.9

["Dick Griest" <krellguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ethereal Support Team,

 

You may be interested to know that I can capture my dial-up adapter modem using Ethereal 0.10.3 but not with the new version Ethereal 0.10.9.

 

I am running WinPcap_3_1_beta4.exe on W2K SP3.  Under Ethereal 0.10.3 when you click capture then click start you see the adapter interface "Generic NdisWan adapter: \Device\NPF_GenericNdisWanAdapter" in the pull down window right at the top.  (I have no ethernet network interface card i.e. NIC so this is the only interface available)  Under Ethereal 0.10.9 when I click on capture then click interface, I have no adapters at all to choose from.

 

I like the new GUI layout which took place somewhere between these two versions.  Particulaly nice is the triangle indicator which shows where the packets are coming from at any instant in time by moving the triangle on the line that corresponds to that IP address . Also neat is how it walks you through step by step in formulating filter strings. Too bad the new GUI won't work for me.

 

I came across this post http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200404/msg00310.html  which tipped me off that Ethereal could now work with PPP on W2K.  I tried it  three years ago and discovered to my disappointment that it didn't work then.  I think you could post a link to Questions 6 & 25 in this FAQ http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm  a little more prominently which states that PPP has been added as of WinPcap_3_1 beta, but that it isn't accessible any longer in Ethereal.

 

Regards,

Dick Griest