[ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.8.12 Win32 Binaries

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Win32 binaries for Ethereal 0.8.12 are now available for download at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32

The packet-capturing version is:
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32/ethereal-0.8.12-capture.zip

The non-packet-capturing-but-file-reading version is:
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32/ethereal-0.8.12-non-capture.zip





Running Ethereal, Tethereal, and Editcap on Win32
=================================================
You need the glib and gtk libraries for running Ethereal. 

These packages for win32 can be found at:

	http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32

and at the home page for the GTK+ for Win32 project:

	http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32

or
	http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/

(the mirror nearer to you may be faster).

Make sure the glib and gtk DLL's are in your path when you run
Ethereal. This includes gtk-*.dll, glib-*.dll, gmodule-*.dll, gdk-*.dll,
and gnu-intl.dll. As of the 20000805 GTK+/GLIB distribution, gthread-*.dll
is no longer needed.

The Win32 Binary distribution, available from

	http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32

used different version of the GTK+/GLIB libraries at different points
in time:

Ethereal Version		GTK+/GLIB version
----------------		-----------------
0.8.11 and after		20000805
0.8.9 - 0.8.10			20000416
0.8.8 and before		19990828


Capturing Packets
-----------------
Remember, if using the the Win32 Binary distribution, available from

	http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32

there are two separate packages, one with non-capturing tools, and
one with capturing tools. Install the appropriate package. The
capturing version requires WinPcap, the non-capturing version does not.

In order to capture with Win32, you need to install the NDIS
packet capture driver for your particular Win32 OS; drivers for Windows
9x, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 can be downlaoded from the
WinPcap home page:

	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/

If Ethereal is not capturing packets, you can test your WinPcap
installation by installing WinDump (TCPdump for Windows) ported by the
same folks who make WinPcap. It's at:

	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/

They also make Analyzer, a GUI sniffer for Win32:

	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/analyzer/


Enjoy!

--gilbert