I have to say - I've updated one machine to XP SP2 that ran WinPCAP and
Ethereal and just built a new laptop to SP2 and installed them both on
it and in both cases it worked fine. I used the latest releases in each
case. It would seem to me that perhaps .dll issues (perhaps old
remnants of previous WinPCAP or similar drivers?) or Windows Firewall
issues (which I don't use) might be culprits for all those who are
having these crashing problems.
One thing's for sure - all of these apps work fine with a clean XP SP2
system.
alan
-----Original Message-----
From: paralleluniverse [mailto:paralleluniverse@ev1.net]
Sent: 24 August 2004 04:50
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Ethereal Crashing on WinXP SP2
This Microsoft Article might be some help in the XP
SP2/Nmap/Ethereal/WINPCAP discussion.
"Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service
Pack 2"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242
Ron
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