----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ethereal user support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:45 AM Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Use with Windows XP
> > On Feb 10, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Joe Walsh wrote: > > > Do I understand correctly that ethereal cannot be use on Windows XP > > with a > > PPPoE connection to the internet or am I missing something? Do you mean capturing the ethernet packet on you ethernet adapter (that contain pppoe) or the packets on the dialup pseudo adapter that windows/3rd party software creates to create the pppoe tunneling? WinPcap (all versions) is able to capture on the former adapter (as it's a normal ethernet adapter); winpcap 3.1 beta *should* be able to capture from the latter adapter (ppp dialup), too. Have a nice day GV > > WinPcap 2.x doesn't really support capturing on PPP interfaces very > well. > > WinPcap 3.0 refuses to even *allow* you to capture on PPP interfaces. > > WinPcap 3.1 beta can, at least on Windows NT 5.x, (you're using Windows > NT 5.1, even though Microsoft's marketoons decided to call it "Windows > XP"), capture on PPP devices using Microsoft's Network Monitor driver. > > Ethereal, like WinDump and Analyzer and a number of other programs, > uses libpcap/WinPcap to capture packets, and thus is subject to the > limitations of libpcap (and the underlying OS mechanisms it uses) on > UN*X and to the limitations of WinPcap on Windows. > > > I have a > > machine with an Intel motherboard with onboard Intel Pro/100 network > > interface connected to my DSL modem. When I set the capture interface > > to > > "pro/100" I get an error message that basically says ethereal doesn't > > support capturing on PPP/WAN interfaces. > > > > Is there something I can do to overcome this limitation? > > Try un-installing whatever version of WinPcap you have installed, and > then installing Winpcap 3.1 beta: > > http://winpcap.polito.it/install/default.htm > > Note that it's beta software, so it might have more bugs than the final > 3.1 release will. > > _______________________________________________ > Ethereal-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users _______________________________________________ Ethereal-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
