Re: [Ethereal-dev] Windows XP 64 Bit - Report

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> Joerg Mayer wrote:
>
> > Maybe someone who knows windows and the gui could add detection for
> > 64-bit windows and pop up a BIG notice regarding this problem?
>
>
> We should perhaps also add to
>
>     http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/
>
> another Big Red Notice, this one about 64-bit Windows, so that people 
> can find out even before they download Ethereal that they're not going 
> to have the success capturing packets that they hope to have.
Having a note on this might be a good idea. But making everything a big 
red note doesn't help at all ... ;-)

BTW: There's a "workaround" mentioned at: 
http://wiki.ethereal.com/WinPcap using Microsoft's netcap tool for 
capturing.

Regards, ULFL