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author | Jörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de> | 2004-08-06 21:17:01 +0000 |
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committer | Jörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de> | 2004-08-06 21:17:01 +0000 |
commit | 155ee76ad8c88af68a46212f7e37cf3036cfeebc (patch) | |
tree | a55e3028cfe21877d3c29196ad674baa910ddac7 /FAQ | |
parent | 9ab5bc571356a08115f361a8f2bfd48d208ef820 (diff) |
Update manuf and faq
svn path=/trunk/; revision=11619
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ')
-rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 77 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 34 deletions
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Building Ethereal: dftest_DEPENDENCIES was already defined in condition TRUE, which implies condition HAVE_PLUGINS_TRUE - when I try to build Ethereal from CVS or a CVS snapshot? + when I try to build Ethereal from SVN or a SVN snapshot? 4.3 The link fails with a number of "Output line too long." messages followed by linker errors. @@ -57,9 +57,6 @@ Building Ethereal: 4.5 The build fails on Windows because of conflicts between winsock.h and winsock2.h. - 4.6 I'm trying to build Ethereal 0.10.0a on Windows; why is the the - build failing with an error saying it can't find "Makefile.nmake"? - Using Ethereal: 5.1 When I use Ethereal to capture packets, I see only packets to and @@ -215,7 +212,7 @@ General Questions Q 1.2: What protocols are currently supported? - A: There are currently 512 supported protocols and media, listed + A: There are currently 518 supported protocols and media, listed below. Descriptions can be found in the ethereal(1) man page. 3GPP2 A11 @@ -367,10 +364,12 @@ cies Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol Distcc Distributed Compiler Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse Protocol + Distributed Network Protocol 3.0 Domain Name Service Dynamic DNS Tools Protocol Echo Encapsulating Security Payload + Endpoint Name Resolution Protocol Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol EtherNet/IP (Industrial Protocol) Ethernet @@ -409,6 +408,7 @@ cies Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Gnutella Protocol H225 + H235-SECURITY-MESSAGES H245 H4501 HP Extended Local-Link Control @@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ cies Hummingbird NFS Daemon HyperSCSI Hypertext Transfer Protocol - IAX2 ICQ Protocol IEEE 802.11 Radiotap Capture header IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN @@ -446,6 +445,7 @@ cies Intel ANS probe Intelligent Platform Management Interface Inter-Access-Point Protocol + Inter-Asterisk eXchange v2 InterSwitch Message Protocol Interbase Internet Cache Protocol @@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ cies PPP-over-Ethernet Session PPPMux Control Protocol Packed Encoding Rules (ASN.1 X.691) + PacketCable Point-to-Point Protocol Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol Portmap @@ -659,6 +660,7 @@ cies Session Initiation Protocol Session Initiation Protocol (SIP as raw text) Short Message Peer to Peer + Signaling Compression Signalling Connection Control Part Signalling Connection Control Part Management Simple Mail Transfer Protocol @@ -729,6 +731,7 @@ cies Zebra Protocol Zone Information Protocol eDonkey Protocol + giFT Internet File Transfer iSCSI iSNS @@ -813,8 +816,8 @@ cies According to the book "Computer Networks" by Andrew Tannenbaum, Ethernet was named after the "luminiferous ether" which was once thought to carry electromagnetic radiation. Taking that into - consideration, Ethereal seemed like an appropriate name for an - Ethernet analyzer. + consideration, Ethereal seemed like an appropriate name for something + that started out as an Ethernet analyzer. Downloading Ethereal @@ -881,7 +884,7 @@ Building Ethereal dftest_DEPENDENCIES was already defined in condition TRUE, which implies condition HAVE_PLUGINS_TRUE - when I try to build Ethereal from CVS or a CVS snapshot? + when I try to build Ethereal from SVN or a SVN snapshot? A: You probably have automake 1.5 installed on your machine (the command automake --version will report the version of automake on your @@ -932,16 +935,6 @@ Building Ethereal Note that the installed version of the developer's pack should be the same version as the version of WinPcap you have installed. - Q 4.6: I'm trying to build Ethereal 0.10.0a on Windows; why is the the - build failing with an error saying it can't find "Makefile.nmake"? - - A: There was a bug in the 0.10.0a distribution that caused - "tools\Makefile.nmake" not to be in the source code release. You can - download it with the URL - http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ethereal/tools/ - Makefile.nmake?rev=1.5. Put it into "tools\Makefile.nmake" and try the - build again. - Using Ethereal Q 5.1: When I use Ethereal to capture packets, I see only packets to @@ -1159,11 +1152,28 @@ Using Ethereal If the attempt to capture on it succeeds, the interface is somehow not being reported by the mechanism Ethereal uses to get a list of - interfaces; please report this to ethereal-dev@ethereal.com giving - full details of the problem, including + interfaces. Try listing the interfaces with WinDump; see the WinDump + Web site or the local mirror of the WinDump Web site for information + on using WinDump. + + You would run WinDump with the -D flag; if it lists the interface, + please report this to ethereal-dev@ethereal.com giving full details of + the problem, including * the operating system you're using, and the version of that operating system; - * the type of network device you're using. + * the type of network device you're using; + * the output of WinDump. + + If WinDump does not list the interface, this is almost certainly a + problem with one or more of: + * the operating system you're using; + * the device driver for the interface you're using; + * the WinPcap library and/or the WinPcap device driver; + + so first check the WinPcap FAQ, the local mirror of that FAQ, or the + Wiretapped.net mirror of that FAQ, to see if your problem is mentioned + there. If not, then see the WinPcap support page (or the local mirror + of that page) - check the "Submitting bugs" section. If you are having trouble capturing on a particular network interface, first try capturing on that device with WinDump; see the WinDump Web @@ -1476,22 +1486,21 @@ Using Ethereal error "** ERROR **: file print.c: line 691 (print_line): should not be reached". - A: This is a bug in Ethereal 0.10.0a, which is fixed in the Ethereal - CVS tree and will thus be fixed in the next release. To work around - the bug, don't use "-x" unless you're also using "-V"; note that "-V" - produces a full dissection of each packet, so you might not want to - use it. + A: This is a bug in Ethereal 0.10.0a, which is fixed in 0.10.1 and + later releases. To work around the bug, don't use "-x" unless you're + also using "-V"; note that "-V" produces a full dissection of each + packet, so you might not want to use it. - To get a fixed version, either build the current CVS version from - anonymous CVS or a nightly CVS snapshot, or apply to tethereal.c in + To get a fixed version, either build the current SVN version from + anonymous SVN or a nightly SVN snapshot, or apply to tethereal.c in the 0.10.0a source tarball the changes between the broken and the fixed versions, which you can download with the URL http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ethereal/tethereal.c.diff? r2=1.211&r1=1.210&diff_format=u and (re-)build from source. It might - be easier to get the CVS version than to get the patch and apply it to + be easier to get the SVN version than to get the patch and apply it to the 0.10.0a source tarball, but it's probably easier to build from the - source tarball than from the CVS version, as you'll need to have more - tools and make more steps to generate from the CVS version some files + source tarball than from the SVN version, as you'll need to have more + tools and make more steps to generate from the SVN version some files that are bundled with the source tarball. Note that to build from the 0.10.0a source tarball on Windows with @@ -1810,7 +1819,7 @@ echo "Mode: y">/proc/driver/aironet/ethN/Config echo "Mode: ess">/proc/driver/aironet/ethN/Config On Linux with the driver in the 2.4.20 or later kernel, or with the - CVS drivers from the airo-linux SourceForge site, you will have to + SVN drivers from the airo-linux SourceForge site, you will have to capture on the wifiN interface if your Aironet card is ethN, after running the commands listed above. @@ -2099,4 +2108,4 @@ echo "Mode: ess">/proc/driver/aironet/ethN/Config For corrections/additions/suggestions for this web page (and not Ethereal support questions), please send email to ethereal-web[AT]ethereal.com . - Last modified: Thu, May 13 2004. + Last modified: Fri, July 16 2004. |