Thanks for your response. It prompted me to check the number of CPU's again.
And you're right, it is a multi-cpu machine. Now where did that extra CPU come from :-) A suggestion for the WinPcap developers: maybe it would be a good idea to display an error message clearly stating that SMP is the problem when one tries to start the NPF service on an SMP machine? Marian, have you find any alternative packet capture libraries to use on an SMP machine ? Thanks ! -----Original Message----- From: Marian Adelin STOICESCU [mailto:marian@;wsc.ro] Sent: 06 November 2002 06:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WinPcap-users] NPF Service fails to start u have i think a SMP machine u have more then 1 processor .. so leave for the moment the ideea to work with winpacp ..just like me ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaco de Wet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: [WinPcap-users] NPF Service fails to start Hi, I have attempted to install/run WinPcap & Ethereal on a server, but it does not report any network cards back. I have installed WinPcap 3.0 Alpha 2 and Ethereal(0.9.6) on the server. There was no previous versions of WinPcap on the server. After starting Ethereal I noticed that there was no network devices listed. I opened up a command prompt and tried to manually start the NPF service using npf_mgm -s This returns the following error message: Error Starting Service NPF:%1 is not a valid Win32 application Thereafter I rebooted the server and tried manually starting the NPF service again, but it still did not work. I can happily install/uninstall the NPF service using npf_mgm, but I cannot start the NPF service. Is this a known problem ? I get the impression that a few similar issues have been logged recently: Problem with detecting adapters <msg00767.html>, alex Netgroup Packet Filter wont start <msg00764.html>, Anthony Clark I have also just now tried this with the newest WinPcap 3.0 Alpha 4, rebooting after installation of the new version. I still get the same problem: the NPF service does not want to start. I have been logged in as Administrator on the server. There is something else I also find puzzling - when I look in the Service Control Panel for the NPF service, it is not listed, even though I can attempt to start it from the command line at such time. The server spec is: Dell Poweredge 2650 (Single CPU P4 2.4 GHz) with Win2000 Server SP2 OS and 2 x Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Cards (on board the motherboard) Does anyone know of a workaround or possible solution for this problem ? Is there anything else I can try ? I have installed and used WinPcap on at least 5 other PC's/servers with no problems at all. Thanks for your assistance Regards Jaco de Wet ====================== This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/winpcap-users@;winpcap.polito.it/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe ====================== ================================================================== This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/winpcap-users@;winpcap.polito.it/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe ================================================================== ================================================================= This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/winpcap-users@;winpcap.polito.it/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe =================================================================
