Re: XPSP2 compatability

From: Jacob Uecker (jacob@juecker.net)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 12:26:14 EDT


According to Microsoft, only outgoing packets are affected.

Check it out:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx#XSLTsection127121120120

Jacob

Terry Dunlap wrote:

> I read a post by Fyodor
> (http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-hackers/2004/Jul-Sep/0002.html) that
> this may be related to the fact that MS removed the TCP raw sockets in
> SP2.
>
> Terry
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:50:32 +0930, Anjin <wildcard@internode.on.net> wrote:
>
>>Following up on the item from James, it also seems that XPSP2 is
>>incompatible with WinPCAP. Both Snort and Ethereal fail with an
>>identical error when XPSP2 is installed. Removing the patch solves the
>>problem.
>>

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