Packet capture driver installation: Windows 2000 platform

To correctly install capture driver in Windows 2000 operating systems you must follow these steps.

1.	Open Windows 2000 Control Panel.
2.	From Windows Control Panel make a double click on "Network and Dial-up Connections" icon. Then double click "Local Area Connection". In the new window click on the 'properties' button.
3.	Click on the Install button in the window where you can install new network components.
4.	In the next window choose the line labeled Protocol...
5.	. . . and click on Add button. Then click on the Have Disk button and on following window choose the full path where you have uncompressed the network device driver (this folder must contain the files packet.inf and packet.sys). Click on the OK button.
6.	Choose the voice BPF Packet capture Driver v X.XX (where X.XX is the number of the version you are installing). Follow instructions displayed on your monitor (Note: this installation can ask you the CD containing Windows 2000).
7.	In the list containing network components, you can now see a line labeled BPF Packet capture driver vX.XX. The driver creates the binding on all the network interface installed on your computer. If some interface must not be used to capture packets you can remove the binding for that specified interface. At this point select OK and reboot the machine.

Troubleshooting

If you have any problem installing the capture driver, please follow these instructions:

1. Remove capture driver.
2. Remove all network adapter's drivers including all modems and network card adapter different from the Ethernet network card you're planning to use as capture device.
3. Re-install the capture driver.
4. Verify the driver is working properly.
5. Re-install all other network drivers you previously removed.