----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Schafer"
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:44 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.7 (Win32) sudden exit
>
> This crash was occurring with 0.9.6, which is why I installed .7 - and I
was running WinPCap 2.3 from go. I've restarted, tried capturing to a file
(this doesn't seem to do anything), and some other little things. It's
reproducable, and always crashes if I perform a particular series of
commands, doesn't with others. Sometimes the capture window (which displays
the number of packets captured, and a %age breakdown) stays open while the
main window closes. Obviously this is no longer connected to anything,
though I tried.
>
Do you have NFS traffic on your network?
A few days ago Martin R found a serious bug in the RPC dissector that mainly
seems to affect
the Windows platform (and maybe mainly the NFS protocol)
This fix has been checked in and will appear in the next release of
ethereal.
To verify if it is this bug that cause your crashes
can you try to disable the RPC protocol using the Edit/Protocols menu item
before you load the capture file into ethereal or before you start the
capture?
This bug only seemed to affect W32 platform for some strange reason.