Re: Snort 1.8.7 on winXP laptop

["Serge M. Slivitzky" <serge.slivitzky () fti-ibis com>]

> I would like to use snort/acid in WindowsXP (or 2000) running on a
> laptop with a Xircom pcmcia cardbus 10/100 ethernet card. Does anyone
> know if this will work? I have installed everything, but running snort
> fails. Doing a snort -W shows: 
>
> -*> Snort! <*-
>
> Version 1.8-MySQL-WIN32 (Build 105)
>
> By Martin Roesch (roesch () sourcefire com, www.snort.org)
>
> 1.7-WIN32 Port By Michael Davis (mike () datanerds net,
> www.datanerds.net/~mike)
>
> 1.8-WIN32 Port By Chris Reid (chris.reid () codecraftconsultants com)
>
>           (based on code from 1.7 port)
>
>
>
> Interface       Device          Description
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> 1
>
>
> Note the "1" in the interface list, with nothing else showing. Doing a
> snort -T shows:
>
> Initializing Network Interface
>
> ERROR: OpenPcap() device  open:
>
>         Error opening adapter
>
> Fatal Error, Quitting..


Had the same problem with W2K sp3 laptop, I had to installed WinPcap 3.0 alpha 2.




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