[<teuvo.g.eloranta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,

I was a bit lost here.
I did not realize the backroud job was just writing to terminal, 
thought the problem was that monitoring never went to backround job.

>  Does it actually capture any packets?  It may be that the only reason
>  you don't have any problems is that it doesn't capture and print any
>  packets....

yes that was the case here.


>  Try
>  	  tethereal -q -i eth0 -R giop -w test.bin &
>  
>  as the "-q" flag will cause Tethereal not to write the 
>  packet count to the terminal.


this -q option was really what I needed :-)
  

BR. Teuvo