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Re: capturing by Stick modem
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:28:22 -0800
On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
Assuming that you're using Windows, this means that the WinPcap (http://www.winpcap.org ) capture library doesn't recognize that card.
Or that WAN cards - such as mobile phone network cards (he said "Huawei HSDPA USB key (modem device)" in his other message) - show up on Windows only as 1) the "GenericDialupAdapter" before you've established a PPP connection or 2) that adapter or a "WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface" for the PPP connection once the connection has been established. See http://www.winpcap.org/misc/faq.htm#Q-5 and http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/PPP If it's not Windows, similar issues may exist - what libpcap/WinPcap, and thus tcpdump/WinDump/Wireshark/etc. capture on, are what one might call "network interfaces", which are software constructs that don't necessarily directly map to physical network adapters. For example, in many UN*Xes, a PPP connection will show up as an network interface with a name such as "ppp0", regardless of whether it's running on a serial line, a mobile phone connection, PPPoE over {ADSL, cable modem, etc.), a VPN link, .... ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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