thanks for the clarification. Wasn't aware about the driver issue.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Subj: Re: [Ethereal-users] Running Ethereal from a CD?
Date: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:13 pm
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To: Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jim Hendrick wrote:
> The only issue would be for Ethereal to "find" the packet capture library
> (libpcap).
You misspelled "WinPcap". :-)
Only half a joke - UN*X systems come with a packet capture mechanism
that can directly be used by libpcap, but Windows doesn't; it has NDIS,
but you need to add a driver to get at it, and WinPcap does that. The
CD would have to install the driver the first time you ran Ethereal.
(Finding wpcap.dll is easier - just install it in the same directory
that contains ethereal.exe.)
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