Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Device not being reported

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 08:20:18PM -0400, David J. Pfaltzgraff wrote:
> I meant: Am I initializing eth1 and using ethereal right?
> From what you say below, it would appear that I am.

Yes.

> > Presumably either
> >
> > 	1) Slackware 9.1's libpcap doesn't support that API
> I just pulled down the Slackware 9.1 tgz that's on ethereal's web site.

Where?  There's a link on the Ethereal site to linuxpackages.net, but
the package itself isn't on our site.

In any case, that's Ethereal, not libpcap.

> That may be the case... see below.
> >
> > or
> >
> > 	2) Ethereal wasn't built to use that API.
> >
> > What does "ethereal -h" print?
> ----
> This is GNU ethereal 0.10.3
> Compiled with GTK+ 2.2.4, with GLib 2.2.3, with libpcap 0.7.2, with libz
> 1.1.4,
> with libpcre 4.4, without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS.
> Running with libpcap (version unknown) on Linux 2.4.22.

The version of libpcap with which it was compiled should support the API
in question - and if it was compiled to use it and dynamically linked
with libpcap, it wouldn't run with a version of libpcap that didn't
support it (if it was statically linked with libpcap, the version with
which it was compiled would be the version with which it'd run).

What does "tcpdump -D" print?