Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Win98 SE, Ethereal & PGP Freeware v6.5.8 by Network Asso
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:10:04PM -0600, David Nemeth wrote:
> It seems that after installed the PGP Freeware software, anything I click on
> "Capture" menu my PC does some rather unusual things (video streaks etc.)
> then just reboots abrubtly. No GPF, no blue screen nothing...
>
> I'm running on an AMD 1600+, 512MB of RAM,
> have a 3C905B-TX Nic which worked yesterday... until I installed PGP
> Freeware v6.5.8 and tried to use Ethereal 0.9.1
> I can open & close Ethereal. I think its due to the new adapter PGP Freeware
> installed called:
> PGPNet Virtual Private Networking driver
It could be. There have been other problems reported with PGPNet:
http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/misc/faq.htm
"Q-10: When I capture on Windows in promiscuous mode, I can see packets
other than those sent to or from my machine; however, those packets show
up with a "Short Frame" indication, unlike packets to or from my
machine. What should I do to arrange that I see those packets in their
entirety?
A: In at least some cases, this appears to be the result of PGPnet
running on the network interface on which you're capturing; turn it off
on that interface."
so perhaps the PGPNet driver just doesn't work well with the WinPcap
driver.
Try downloading and installing WinDump:
http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/
Then run it from an MS-DOS Prompt window (or a Command Prompt window, or
whatever the heck they call it in Windows 98; I've managed to avoid
using Windows OT very much - my home machine's Windows partition has NT
4.0, and my machine at work has NT 5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows 2000) with the
"-D" flag, and then try running it with each of the capture devices it
listed when the "-D" flag was used (they'll be listed with numbers - you
can just specify the number to the "-i" flag).
If it crashes when capturing on any of them, note which ones it crashed
on, and then report the problem to the WinPcap developers:
winpcap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
