WinXP Home Edition ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Olaf Lachowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] intel anypoint
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:19:40PM -0000, Olaf Lachowicz wrote: > > It is Windows XP indeed, and I installed WinPcap. What is NDIS WAN > > framework? > > NDIS is the "Network Driver Interface Specification", which is > Microsoft's specification for how to write drivers for network devices > on Windows. > > There are routines in both Windows OT (95, 98, Me) and Windows NT (NT > 3.x, NT 4.0, NT 5.0/Windows 2000, NT 5.1/Windows XP, and so on) that can > be called by those drivers. > > There are also mechanisms to plug network-layer protocols such as IP > into the networking code. > > The mechanisms in question are somewhat designed around LANs; in > Windows, there's an "NDIS intermediate driver", called NDISWAN, that > provides services that WAN drivers can use. > > > Can you please help me on what to do? > > There's probably not much you *can* do. > > If the Anypoint driver looks like a driver offering PPP, that means it's > probably using NDISWAN, and that just won't work with WinPcap on Windows > NT, including the NT 5.1 you're running (which Microsoft calls "Windows > XP"): > > http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm#Q-6 > > "Q-6: Can I use WinPcap on a PPP connection? > > A: We have tested WinPcap on PPP connections under Windows 95, Windows > 98 and Windows ME. In Windows 95, due to a bug in NDIS, WinPcap > sometimes resets the PPP connection. In Windows 98/ME this bug appears > to be corrected, and WinPcap seems to receive correctly, however it is > not able to send packets. Under Windows NT/2000/XP there are problems > with the binding process, that prevent a protocol driver from working > properly on the WAN adapter. The problem is caused by the PPP driver of > WinNTx, ndiswan, that doesn't provide a standard interface to capture." > > If the Anypoint driver looks like an ATM driver, it might, in theory, > work, but WinPcap might not have been tested with that: > > http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm#Q-17 > > "Q-17: Which network adapters are supported? > > A: The NPF device driver was developed to work primarily with Ethernet > adapters. Support for other MACs was added during the development, but > Ethernet remains the preferred one. The main reason is that all our > development stations have Ethernet adapters so all our tests were made > on this type of network. However, the current situation is: > > ... > > o Windows NT4/2000: the packet driver works correctly on Ethernet > networks. We were not able to make it working on PPP WAN links, > because of binding problems on the NDISWAN adapter. As in Win9x, > FDDI, ARCNET, ATM and Token Ring should be supported, but are not > granted to work perfectly. > > ..." > > You'd have to ask the WinPcap developers for more help: > > http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
