Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 14 13:05:10 PDT 2004


On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
> Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes.
>
> Anyone else seeing this trouble?  Anyone got any suggestions?

Hmm, try using tcpdump?  Also, I've seen packet sniffers freeze like 
this if they try to perform DNS lookups and are waiting for answers 
(due to DNS being slow, unavailable, etc)....

-- 
-Chuck



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