Guy Harris wrote:
> Jaap Keuter wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Kota wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I have a problem!
>>> On your site I can see some remarks about Ethereal support IrDA
>>> protocol.
>>> I want to see on IrDA protocol but I can not select IrDA device on my
>>> notebook. Notebook have integrated irda unit and this unit perfectly
>>> work with my phone.
>>> OS WIn2000K
>>> Ethereal version 0.10.13
>>> WinPcap version 3.1 beta 4
>>>
>>> Best regard
>>> Kotenev Yury
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is an interesting snippet from the dissecor source code
>>
>> 8<-----------------
>> * The plugin operates both offline with libpcap files and online on
>> supported
>> * platforms. Live dissection is currently available for Linux-IrDA
>> * (irda.sourceforge.net) and for Windows if the Linux-IrDA port IrCOMM2k
>> * (www.ircomm2k.de) is installed.
>
>
> Ulf Lamping added that to the page on IrDA capture on the Ethereal Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/IrDA
>
> and I added some additional links - it appears that, on Windows, you
> need to have the IrCOMM2K driver installed, as well as a patched version
> of WinPcap.
>
> Jan, does the patched version of WinPcap require the IrCOMM2K driver to
> be installed even if you're *not* going to capture on an IrDA device? If
Well, this is old code, and must confess that I'm not sure about it's
precise behaviour at the moment. My current assessment: WinPcap still
works, but we may see some unusable IrDA entry in the list of available
interfaces. I think what's missing is a detection for the IrCOMM2k
capturing device.
> not, it might be worth trying to get the patches to WinPcap into the
> main WinPcap release, just as there's DAG-card support in it, so that
> users don't have to install a patched WinPcap to capture on IrDA
> interfaces (the patched version is based on WinPcap 3.1 beta 3, but the
> current version of WinPcap is the final 3.1 release).
I always planned to submit some patch to WinPcap, but I wanted to clean
things a bit up first. For now I'm definitely lacking time for the
required updates (i.e. at least an upgrade to 3.1 final). But if there
is real interest to address this and maybe do the missing steps, I would
try to support everyone the best I can.
Jan
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