It is a common problem under Win9x: you have two PPPMAC (aka dial-up connections) on your system, and WinPcap tries to capture from the first one, always.
Try to: - remove winpcap - uninstall all the instances of the PPP adapter from the control panel - reinstall the adapter - reinstall winpcap GV ----- Original Message ----- From: "praveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:28 AM > I was using ethereal on Win-98 pc when I tweaked around with the > partitions. SO I had to reinstall Win-98. After this, I installed > ethereal along with winpcap but it is not able to capture any packets on > the ppp interface. The interfaces available are PPPMAC, PPPMAC and pptp. I > tried both options PPPMAC and pptp to capture but met with no success. I am > using ethereal 0-9-5 on winpcap 2.3. > > Also, I can't select the second PPPMAC interface when I start capturing. > Why is > this? > > Operating system Windows 98 on a PII 300/ 128Mb PC. > The debug file is as follows. > > /******************************************************************/ > ************Packet32: DllMain************ > Packet32: StartPacketDriver > Found adapter: PPPMAC > Packet32: PacketOpenAdapter, opening PPPMAC > Packet32: PacketDeviceIoControl > Packet32: PacketSetFilter > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: PacketRequest > Adapter description: PPP Adapter. > Packet32: PacketCloseAdapter > Found adapter: PPPMAC > Packet32: PacketOpenAdapter, opening PPPMAC > Packet32: PacketDeviceIoControl > Packet32: PacketSetFilter > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: PacketRequest > Adapter description: PPP Adapter. > Packet32: PacketCloseAdapter > Found adapter: pptp > Packet32: PacketOpenAdapter, opening pptp > Packet32: PacketDeviceIoControl > Packet32: PacketSetFilter > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: PacketRequest > Packet32: Ndis returned error to OID > Adapter description: Unknown > > ************Packet32: DllMain************ > Packet32: StopPacketDriver > > /******************************************************************/ > > Kind Regards > Praveen.P > > > ===== > Praveen. P > No:624, 3rd Block > B.E.L. Layout > 4th Main, 9th Cross > Vidyaranyapura > Bangalore- 560097 > Ph: + 91-80-3640624 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com >
