Quite often Ethereal seems to hang while trying to resolve the IP addresses
captured to DNS names, which happens synchronously and can be quite slow.
Try turning off "Enable Name Resolution" from the capture dialog.
Martin Visser
Technology Consultant - Compaq Global Services
Compaq Computer Australia
410 Concord Road
Rhodes, Sydney NSW 2138
Australia
Phone: +61-2-9022-5630
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Spanagel [mailto:mark.spanagel@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 1:06 PM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal problem
>
>
> In the FAQ, under 3.2, it talks about Ethereal crashing
> during a live capture.
> I'm running Ethereal 0.8.16-1 Libpcap 0.4-19 and
> udc-snmp-4.1.1-2 and RedHat
> 6.1
>
> I run a live capture, click stop, and the program hangs w/ a
> dialog that is
> titled "Loading etherXXXXa4pWt7..."
>
> I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer.
>
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