Re: W2000 SP4 Wireshark 1.2.6 and 1.3.3 do not work

[Julian Fielding <jfielding () ra rockwell com>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:07:17 -0700, Gerald Combs wrote:
> Graham Bloice wrote:
> > On 23/03/2010 16:47, Mail Box wrote:
> > > It has already been reported by another user but has been erroneously 
closed as resolved. 
> > > That is not the case. 
> > > The reported error persists at least on some installations of W2000 
SP4.
> > > Wireshark 1.2.5 works on the same platform.
> > >
> > > Error:
> > > "The procedure entry point getaddrinfo could not be located in the 
dynamic link
> > > library W32_32.dll"
> > This call is made from the c-ares library, not wireshark itself. 
> > According to MSDN 
> > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738520%28VS.85%29.aspx, see 
> > blurb near bottom on older versions of Windows) to use this function on 

> > Windows < XP SP2 requires one to include ws2tcpip.h and Wspiapi.h 
before 
> > using the function.  This then uses an in-line copy of the function if 
> > the system dll doesn't include it.  This would mean building our own 
> > copy of c-ares.
> >
> > As all MS support for W2K ceases on 13 July 2010 
(http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+2000&Filter=FilterNO) 

> > is this worthwhile?
>
> 1.2.7 will restore Windows 2000 support. It is scheduled for release on 
> March 31. In the meantime you can get a prerelease version from 
> http://www.wireshark.org/download/prerelease/

The prereleases do run on Win2000, but they exhibit bug 4449 (ridiculous 
behaviour on opening Capture Interfaces or Options dialogs) (tested up to 
wireshark-win32-1.2.7pre1-32260.exe). I suggest staying with 1.2.5 for the 
moment.

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