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ETHEREAL FOR W INDOWS

IMPORTANT NOTE ON 802.11

Ethereal's ability to capture traffic on 802.11 networks on Windows is limited by

the support offered by the Windows drivers for 802.11 adapters.

On Windows, you will not be able to capture management or control frames, and

you might not even be able to capture in promiscuous mode, so you might only be

able to capture traffic to and from the machine running Ethereal.

If you want to use a PC running Ethereal to monitor 802.11 traffic to or from other

machines, rather than using Ethereal only to look at traffic to and from the

machine on which you're running Ethereal, you should seriously consider running it

on a recent version of Linux or of one of the free-software BSDs, rather than on

Windows. See the Ethereal Wiki page on capture setup on WLANs for details on capturing802.11 traffic in "monitor mode" on Linux and the free-software BSDs.

Quick Instructions

1. Install ethereal-setup- x.y.z .exe below.

2. Enjoy.

Detailed InstructionsTo get up and running with Ethereal, download and install ethereal-setup- x.y.z .exe below. Theinstaller includes the WinPcap packet capture driver, which must be installed if you plan to capturepackets with Ethereal. If you don't install WinPcap, you will not be able to capture packets withEthereal!

The latest version of Ethereal can always be found in this directory. Older versions are in the all-versions directory.

To install WinPcap separately, download the WinPcap installer and run it. 3.1 is the current

recommended version. It is included with the Ethereal installer.

If you have an older version of WinPcap installed, you must un-install it before installingthe current version.

If you do not have WinPcap installed you will be able to open saved capture files, but you will notbe able to capture live network traffic.

Note that merely installing WinPcap will not install Ethereal. You will have to install Ethereal

separately; see above.

You can obtain the source code to Ethereal from the parent of this directory or by following the

instructions on the development page.

For more information, please refer to README.win32 in the Ethereal distribution.

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ethereal-setup-0.99.0.exe 24-Apr-2006 14:42 12M DOS/Windows executable

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