Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] freeze

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From: Claus Wagner <Claus.Wagner@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:00:57 +0100
> 
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:59:25AM -0600, LotharLang wrote:
> >
> >
> > The ethereal freezes while the live capture is on. The libpcap is
patched,
> > but don�t help.
> > What can i do.
> > Greetings Lothar
> >  - att1.htm
> 
> Do you mean to say that Ethereal gets some packets, but then freezes?
> Or it freezes before getting any packets?
> 
> What version of Ethereal and libpcap are you using? What OS are you using?
> 
> --gilbert

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SuSE Linux 6.3 - Kernel 2.2.13
ISDN card 'Fritz!PCI' (HiSax module)
Pentium-233, 128 MB RAM

ethereal 0.8.1 / 0.8.2
glib 1.2.6
gtk 1.2.6
libpcap 0.4
libpcap-0.4-guy-gerald.patch
gcc 2.95.2

Hi,

I observed something similar as Lothar. I compiled all the source code
on my machine (with standard optimization and then with -O3). Live
capturing of connections to localhost work absolutely perfect. They are
immediately displayed. However, capturing a PPP session (ippp0 on the
ISDN card), something like four or six packets are displayed and then
the application blocks (no repaint of the app window etc).

After I pressed stop capturing, I had to wait approx 15-20 seconds, then
ethereal was up again. It also displayed all the packets (I think there
was no data loss).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Claus