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authorJörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>2004-08-06 21:17:01 +0000
committerJörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>2004-08-06 21:17:01 +0000
commit155ee76ad8c88af68a46212f7e37cf3036cfeebc (patch)
treea55e3028cfe21877d3c29196ad674baa910ddac7 /FAQ
parent9ab5bc571356a08115f361a8f2bfd48d208ef820 (diff)
Update manuf and faq
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@@ -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.