Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.14 locks up on "large" captures.

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:08:52 -0600
Hey all,

I've been trying to do a capture on a link that has *very* high utilization,
but I wind up having to take tiny ( < 5000 packet ) captures because the
larger capture files cause ethereal to lock up during the decode.

I'm running ethereal 0.8.14 with zlib 1.1.3, UCD SNMP 4.1.2, libpcap 0.5.2,
gimp 1.0.4, and glib and gtk+ 1.2.8 (both).

After ethereal crashes, if I rerun ethereal and try to open the
etherXXXX.... files in /tmp, it re-attempts to decode them and locks at the
same place.

I don't know that I want to make the capture files available, since they
contain live data from our network, but is there a way to get ethereal to
tell me at what point it's crashing?

Thanks!

Justin McNutt
Mizzou Telecom - A Unit of IATS
(573) 882-5183

Attempting to make a living at legitimate computing...