Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with installation

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From: "Julian Fielding" <jfielding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:48:04 +0100

Jim Simpson on Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:02:34 -0400 said:

> My Ethereal acts as thought it is not aware that WinPcap has been installed.

So you can open a file? Such as from http://www.ethereal.com/sample/
And if you try to capture, you get a reasonable error message saying WinPcap is not installed?
That's an improvement, since previously these operations caused bizarre behaviour on your system. Can you say what you did to get to this happy state, and what version of Ethereal you're now using?

> Could I have it installed in the wrong folder or could the path be incorrect?

I never had this sort of problem with WinPcap, so have never had to investigate it. I just did a default installation (after uninstalling any previous version) and it worked.

Try WinDump. This is always a good idea if you suspect a WinPcap problem, or need to distinguish between a WinPcap problem and an Ethereal problem. You can get WinDump from http://windump.polito.it/

If WinDump has the same problem as Ethereal, then it's a WinPcap problem. Go to http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
If WinDump works but Ethereal doesn't, it's an Ethereal problem. Continue with this thread . . .

Julian.