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Re: Weird Indy + Ethereal + firewall?? occurrence.

Subject:Re: Weird Indy + Ethereal + firewall?? occurrence.
Posted by:"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com)
Date:Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:45:32

"IanH" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> The app runs fine on some machines, not on others: the app
> appears unable to receive the UDP packets being broadcast
> by that machine.

Firewalls  and network routers tend to disallow UDP broadcasts by default.
Make sure they are enabled in the configuration.

> I am also not sure if the relevant functionality is buried in the packet
> capture utility, which looks like a separate program (WinPCap).

It is.  WinPCap is a network capture library, not a program.


Gambit

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