Convert WinPcap references and URLs in error messages and the FAQ
to their Npcap equivalents. Remove some obsolete FAQ entries.
Change-Id: I695d358a2c9cff0939f4ea84ba02d4c62ad7dd01
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/31943
Petri-Dish: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
On Windows, if WinPcap isn't installed, warn about that for errors other
than failed attempts to start capturing.
On HP-UX, if we appear to have an old version of libpcap, warn about
that for errors other than failed attempts to start capturing.
If we know the error is a permissions problem, don't make suggestions
appropriate to other problems.
If we know the error is *not* a permissions problem, don't make
suggestions appropriate to permissions problems.
For permissions problems, or possible permissions problems, on Linux,
suggest doing dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common if you've installed from
a package on Debian or a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu.
Change-Id: If4aac0343095ac0b984eebc21853920c3b6d3c63
Ping-Bug: 14847
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/28189
Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
It is now considered stable enough to be our default capture driver if present
Change-Id: I7f3cdabcbaea526949afa47164e520202e6b93f2
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/27393
Petri-Dish: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@gmail.com>
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Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@gmail.com>
Move */ to a separate line below the SPDX identifier.
Change-Id: Id1032215449cfccae0933147b45e04b65e0b727f
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/27211
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
The first is deprecated, as per https://spdx.org/licenses/.
Change-Id: I8e21e1d32d09b8b94b93a2dc9fbdde5ffeba6bed
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25661
Petri-Dish: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
Petri-Dish: Dario Lombardo <lomato@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
It declares what's defined here, so always include it.
Change-Id: I1d7d5ed071e6f2d53af9ff147ede18b05b98ecd1
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/21616
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
It has nothing to do with controlling privileges; it only tests whether
the NPF or Npcap service (driver) is running, so it belongs in caputils.
While we're at it, fix its signature (in C, a function with no arguments
must have "void" as the argument list, for backwards compatibility with
pre-function-prototype C), and close the handles it opens, so we don't
have open handles leaked.
Change-Id: Ia99e99d81617ed2e8cda2c44e53061b4502a2b58
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/15714
Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Add a test on err_str buffer presence before trying to use it,
like what is done in other code paths.
Bug: 12143
Change-Id: I30ae49a33224dc190c202637767df9d7de2c0f2b
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/14074
Reviewed-by: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@gmail.com>
Petri-Dish: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@gmail.com>
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Reviewed-by: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com>
Move the code to open capture devices and get properties of capture
devices there, joining the code to get a list of capture devices.
This lets us do a better job of handling pcap_create() in WinPcap,
including handling both WinPcap with pcap_create() and WinPcap without
pcap_create() at run time, just in case somebody tries using WinPcap 3.x
with a Wireshark built with WinPcap 4.x.
It also could make it easier to use libpcap/WinPcap directly in
Wireshark and TShark, if we have versions of libpcap/WinPcap that run
small helper utilities to do privileged functions, allowing programs
using them never to need elevated privileges themselves. That might
make it easier to fix some issues with running TShark when not saving to
a file (we could avoid the file entirely) and with delays when stopping
a capture in Wireshark (Wireshark could stop writing to the file as soon
as you click the stop button, rather than letting dumpcap do so when the
signal gets to it).
It might also make it easier to handle future versions of
libpcap/WinPcap that support using pcap_create()/pcap_activate() for
remote captures, and other future extensions to libpcap/WinPcap.
Rename some XXX_linktype routines to XXX_datalink to indicate that they
work with DLT_ values rather than LINKTYPE_ values; future versions of
libpcap might use LINKTYPE_ values in newer APIs.
Check for pcap_create() on all platforms in CMake.
Change-Id: Ia12e1692c96ec945c07a135d246958771a29c817
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/13062
Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Most of our sites are now HTTPS-only. Update URLs accordingly. Update
other URLs while we're at it. Remove or comment out dead links.
Change-Id: I7c4f323e6585d22760bb90bf28fc0faa6b893a33
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/7621
Petri-Dish: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
It just means "pcap didn't give me any interfaces, and didn't report an
error". Hopefully, in the future, there will be pcap APIs that
distinguish between the (admittedly unlikely, these days) case of "there
really *are* no interfaces on which *anybody* can capture" and "you
don't have sufficient permission to capture", and we can report the
latter as an error. (Given that pcap supports more than just "regular
interfaces", though, there are cases where you don't have permission to
capture on those but you have permission to capture raw USB traffic, for
example, so perhaps what's really needed is per-interface indications of
permissions.)
Change-Id: I7b8abb0829e8502f5259c95e8af31655f79d36a1
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/3169
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Some of those routines are used only in dumpcap; others are used in
TShark and Wireshark as well.
Change-Id: I9d92483f2fcff57a7d8b6bf6bdf2870505d19fb7
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/2841
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Gerald Combs