Re: [Ethereal-users] Win98 & promiscuous

["Osawa Tatsuzo" <tatsuzo_osawa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,
It is pitiful.

The "customized preference file" which I mentioned is 
c:\.ethereal\preferences
that is edited manually (capture.prom_mode is changed into TRUE).
This file will be created, if menu "Edit - Preferences..." is chosen and 
Save
button is pushed in a dialog. You know, Ethereal 0.8.18 is not promiscuous
mode by the default. So capture.prom_mode must be FALSE if Save is selected
in the state of a default. In my environment, it solved by setting this to
TRUE and restarting Ethereal.

You said your environment has already TRUE, so I think you did it update 
from
the front version? It seems that our situation is differed from if it does 
not work as for capture.prom_mode = TRUE.


> Thanks for the pointers. However, I do have a problem - how do I get to a
> custom preference file? I can't see anything offered in the Ethereal
> software to change the path of the preference file, and nothing in the 
docs
> of how to change that location and create an own preference file. I just
> see the default "preferences" file in c:\.ethereal, can't find any
> ethereal.conf file as mentioned in the docs.
>
> In the default preference file the option you mentioned 
(capture.prom_mode)
> is set to TRUE.
>
> I tried to force this option set via the command line (-o option), no
> success.
>
> Can you give me a description of how to generate the custom preferences
> file under Windows that you mentioned?
>
> Simon

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