Re: [Ethereal-users] Question

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 05:11:14PM -0400, agomez@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Does ethereal work on XP?

It appears that it works for at least some people:

	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/pentest/2001-12/0060.html

"I have had no problems with Ethereal, NmapNT and fport on Win XP Pro,
and can verify that they work on a (basically) vanilla system after
installing everything correctly and following the tool installation and
usage instructions.  make sure you are using the WinPcap 2.3 beta
drivers though."

> I am having some problems where no trace opens or starts.

"Opens" and "starts" in what sense?

If you don't have WinPcap 2.3 (2.3 is no longer in beta), you will not
be able to capture packets; earlier versions of WinPcap don't work on
Windows XP.

However, even if you don't have WinPcap 2.3 installed, Ethereal should
be able to open capture files you've captured with other programs, if
they're from a program whose files Ethereal can read.