Re: Problem: Can't get list of interfaces: PacketGetAdapterNames: There are no more files. (18)

Ulf Lamping <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:31:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gonze Didier wrote:
>
> Can someone help me:
>
> I am able to perform one capture with Ethereal but as soon as I try to 
> perform a second capture trough the Interface as the Options from 
> Capture menu I receive the message:
>
> Can't get list of interfaces: PacketGetAdapterNames: There are no more 
> files. (18)
>
> Closing Ethereal doesn’t help only reboot the PC allows me to perform 
> one new trace.
>
> I have tried with
>
> Ethereal 0.10.12 with WinPcap 3.1 beta4
>
> Ethereal 0.99.0
>
> With WinPcap 3.1, WinPCap 3.1 beta4 WinPCap 4.0 alpha1
>
> OS is Windows XP Pro.
>
First of all, you may try Wireshark 0.99.2, that's where the development 
continues.

I don't know it that'll fix your problems, however it should be the 
first step to fix it :-)

Please report it on the Wireshark mailing lists, if it helped or not.

Regards, ULFL