Oddly, while the VPN was broken, the Ethereal/WinPcap worked fine. I finally fixed the problem today by reinstalling the network card's drivers. For future reference, it was a Realtek TRL8139/810x NIC.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:53 AM To: Community support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Conflict with Cisco VPN? Mark McWhinney wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I installed Ethereal 0.99 / WinPcap 3 then upgraded to the current > Wireshark 0.99.5 / WinPcap 4 on my Windows XP Pro laptop. > > I have been using Cisco VPN for a while without any trouble. Now, the VPN > does not work on my network card but does work with my Wireless connection. > > Is it possible that Ethereal/Wireshark/WinPcap damaged a driver or something > else that would muck up my TCP packets? > From several years of experience: In the world of computers, everything is possible ;-) > I uninstalled Ethereal/Wireshark/WinPcap and re-installed the Cisco VPN > client but am still getting the same results. > > Any tips or pointers? > > See: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/InterferingSoftware You may better ask the WinPcap team about this. Wireshark is very certainly *not* the cause of your problems, but WinPcap probably is. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users