[Winpcap-users] Problem with PacketGetAdapterNames

[Loris Degioanni]

Gonze Didier wrote:

> Using Ethereal I was receiving the following message:
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> Can't get list of interfaces: PacketGetAdapterNames: There are no more 
> files. (18)
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>  From the Ethereal site I’ve read the advice to try with WinDump in 
> order to see if the problem was linked with Ethereal or WinPCap:
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> Running WinDump.exe –D I receive the first time as expected the name of 
> the interface:
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>  /1.\Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter (Generic dialup adapter)/
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> /2.\Device\NPF_{2ADF974F-F3C9-48FF-97E2-3C261938FA9A} (Dell draadloze 
> 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI kaart (Microsoft's Packet Sche/
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> /duler) )/
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> /3.\Device\NPF_{889EBB8E-FD12-4D35-AB19-BF61DF1BCA73} (NOC Extranet 
> Access Adapter (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler) )/
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> /4.\Device\NPF_{EA1435B5-323F-40A0-A2EA-DEB99F70041F} (Broadcom 
> NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Driver (Microsoft's Packet S/
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> /cheduler) )/
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> The second time all the interfaces are gone but I receive a message that 
> the command is correctly applied:
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> WinDump.exe: PacketGetAdapterNames: The operation completed 
> successfully. (0)
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> This test is done with WinPCap 3.1
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> Only after a reboot of the PC I receive back the correct interface.
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> My conclusion is thus that the problem is located in WinPCap
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> The Ethereal test were done with 3.1, 3.1 beta4 and 4.0 alpha1.
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> My guess: is that  the problem has been introduced when I’ve go from 
> WinPCap 3.0 to WinPCap 3.1 beta4 but now when I install WinPCap 3.1 
> there is still some part of the the beta version which are not uninstalled
> 

So was it working with WinPcap 3.0?

Loris

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