Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal crashes Win XP.

["Dugroin !" <dugroin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guy !

Thanks for your reply. My problem is now solved !

Here is what I did (FYI):
- I removed the installed Winpcap software (3.0 alpha 4)
- Reinstalled and older version of Winpcap (2.3).

You can find these software at http://winpcap.polito.it/install/default.htm

Thanks again guy(s) ;-) and keep up this excellent work !

Yours,

Yves.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dugroin !" <dugroin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal crashes Win XP.


> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:48:55AM +0100, Dugroin ! wrote:
> > I just downloaded the newest version of Ethereal, and it seems that Win
XP
> > crashes (blue screen and immediate reboot) when starting to receive
packets
> > (not before)... I hesitate to consider it as sad... or funny ;-)
>
> Well, that *is* a risk you run when adding third-party drivers to your
> OS, which is what you have to do in order to capture packets.
>
> I'd suggest that you download WinDump and try capturing packets with it
> - specify a snapshot length of 65535 with "-s 65535", and write to a
> file with the "-w" flag.
>
> If it crashes when you do that, it's probably either a bug in the
> WinPcap driver or in Windows XP; in either case, you should report it to
> the WinPcap developers:
>
> http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
>