Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

[Bill Moran]

Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> 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)....

Thanks, Chuck.

I have been using tcpdump until I can figure this out, but I have to admit
that Ethereal just makes it easier to analyze the capture.

On the flip side, it turns out that Ethereal _is_ working, it's just
unreasonably slow.  Which starts a new question.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com