["Reimer, Fred" <Fred.Reimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: kenson Stationery

Windows may be trying NetBIOS lookups for the IP addresses in addition to DNS.  If so, this isn't anything Ethereal can control.  Try cruising over to MS' site and search their knowledge base for registry settings.  You're looking for the setting for NetBIOS node type.  I personally set mine to a "P" node so that it only uses WINS to do NetBIOS lookups.  I believe the defaults always include using broadcasts, either before or after WINS or as the only option if you don't have a WINS server setup.  Broadcast NetBIOS name lookups are evil, and should be avoided at all costs...

 

HTH,

 

Fred Reimer

Eclipsys Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gilbert Ramirez
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:42 PM
To: Alistair Holyhead; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal running slow on winnt

I've noticed that the DNS resolution is a *lot* slower on win32 than on Linux. I haven't looked into it

with any detail to know why (that is, is it something that we can fix?). If you turn off name resolution during

the capture, does it run faster?  When it runs slow, does it miss packets?

 

--gilbert

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Alistair Holyhead

To: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'

Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:49 AM

Subject: [Ethereal-users] ethereal running slow on winnt

    Can someone help I have install ethereal on to my nt computer and it running a lot slow the no my old Linux box

in task manager the service only seems to firer every now and again

can some one help speeding it up

many thanks

 

alistair holyhead

E-mail: alistair.holyhead@xxxxxxxxxxxx 

 



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