Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal startup/shutdown window

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:53:43 -0800
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:05:06PM -0500, Coleman Brumley wrote:
> It seems more to be a version issue, like Martin suggested.  NCP doesn't
> show up in the list of protocols in edit->preferences.  
>  
> I brought a newly compiled version from home this morning, which could be
> from v0.9.7, but I'm not sure.

Either the NCP dissector didn't get compiled in, or you somehow have an
old version.

What does the "$Id" line at the beginning of "packet-ncp.c" say?  If the
version number in that line isn't 1.72, you don't have the 0.9.8 version
of the source (and if it's not 1.70, you don't have the 0.9.7 version,
either).

If you select "Protocols" from the "Edit" menu, does the dialog box list

	NCP		NetWare Core Protocol

as one of the items?  If not, the NCP dissector didn't get compiled in,
in which case

	1) it's not surprising that the miscompiled version of Ethereal
	   doesn't recognize an NCP preference

and

	2) that miscompiled version won't recognize NCP *packets*,
	   either - it'll probably just treat them as IPX packets and
	   dissect the payload as data rather than as NCP.