Re: [Ethereal-users] help with interface

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:05:16PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:46:50PM -0500, Oblio wrote:
> > I just installed Ethereal on my WinNT system, but I can't start a 
> > capture.  What should appear in the "interface" box?  Does it populate 
> > automatically
> 
> It does *if* you have interfaces that are reported by WinPcap.

...and if you're not running on an SMP machine; WinPcap doesn't support
SMP machines currently, and recent versions simply refuse to work at all
if they detect they're being used on an SMP machine.