User Guide

systems. BTW: Microsoft no longer supports 98/ME since July 11, 2006!

• Windows NT 4.0 will no longer work with Wireshark. The last known version to work was

Wireshark 0.99.4 (which includes WinPcap 3.1), you still can get it from: http:/ / prdown-

loads.sourceforge.net/wireshark/wireshark-setup-0.99.4.exe. BTW: Microsoft no longer supports

NT 4.0 since December 31, 2005!

• Windows CE and the embedded (NT/XP) versions are not supported!

• 64-bit processors run Wireshark in 32 bit emulation (called WoW64), at least WinPcap 4.0 is re-

quired for that

• Multi monitor setups are supported but may behave a bit strangely

1.2.3. Unix / Linux

Wireshark currently runs on most UNIX platforms. The system requirements should be comparable

to the Windows values listed above.

Binary packages are available for at least the following platforms:

• Apple Mac OS X

• Debian GNU/Linux

• FreeBSD

• Gentoo Linux

• HP-UX

• Mandriva Linux

• NetBSD

• OpenPKG

• Red Hat Fedora/Enterprise Linux

• rPath Linux

• Sun Solaris/i386

• Sun Solaris/Sparc

If a binary package is not available for your platform, you should download the source and try to

build it. Please report your experiences to wireshark-dev[AT]wireshark.org .

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