Andrew,
Thanks for the pointers; I'd hope on this box I don't need to upgrade
the video card... it's a Sun Ultra 10 with a Creator 3D card; I'd think it
has enough memory to support the color palettes needed by the apps I run
(though I do remember having palette problems with Netscape on my old IPX
and SPARC 2). I'll give a shot at running Ethereal prior to launching
Netscape and see if my problem clears up.
As for running SPAM... yea I used to run Cabletron's SPMAs (and SPELM)
to handle the over abundance of Cabletron gear; but as we've moved to a
more Cisco-centric shop, SPMAs don't get used too often anymore (but
there's still a FEW pieces of Ctron gear that occasionally needs
'monitoring'). Anyway, what brought that up; should I know you? (If so,
I apologize for drawing a blank.)
Scott
Scott Fringer Shands Healthcare @ U.F.
Network Systems Analyst Gainesville, FL
On 20 Mar 2002, Andrew C. Feren wrote:
> Scott Fringer <fringsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > I loaded a capture into Ethereal this morning (running 0.9.1 under
> > Solaris 7). I selected the first frame of a TCP stream I wished to
> > follow and selected Follow TCP Stream from a right-click pop-up. I saw
> > the brief Filtering window pop-up, and the Contents of TCP Stream window
> > opened. The window 'appears' blank. But if I highlight the contents of
> > the window, I can actually see the TCP stream. How have I managed to
> > get that window to display white text on a white background? I can't
> > find anything in the colorize options to affect that window.
>
> Sorry this took so long. It doesn't look like anyone else has
> responded so here it goes.
>
> I have seen this before and never fully debugged the problem. It
> seems to be an X or GTK problem. What I saw was that some other
> application (Netscape for me) was grabbing lots of colors and this
> prevented Ethereal from getting the colors that it was trying to
> allocate.
>
> I have two work arounds.
>
> 1) Logout. When you log back in start Ethereal before you start
> anything else. If the problem disappears you either need to do a
> fresh login everytime you need the feature or try option 2.
>
> 2) Upgrade your video card. This is how I ultimately fixed the
> problem. Off the top of my head I don't know what I changed to/from,
> but I can find out if you like.
>
> 3?) There may be a possible code fix, but I didn't see it in the short
> time I spent poking around.
>
>
> Is this the same Scott Fringer that used to (or perhaps still does)
> run the Cabletron SPAM chart and meter apps for monitoring?
>
> --
> -Andrew Feren
> Cetacean Networks, Inc.
> Portsmouth, NH
>
>