Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.13 and WinPcap 3.0 issues

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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:20:23 +0100
>I am running Win2K SP3 and just de-installed WinPcap 2.2 and installed
>WinPcap 3.0 followed by Ethereal 0.9.13.
> 
>When I start a packet capture, things seem to go OK for a few seconds, then
>the counters of the number of packets captured seems to jump dramatically,
>followed by 100 % processor utilization.
> 
>Didn't have this issue with WinPcap2.2 and Ethereal 0.9.12.
> 
>Is this a known problem? Don't know whether WinPcap or the new Ethereal is
>causing this problem.


Do you have "Enable network name resolution" turned on in Edit/Preferences.../Name resolution   ?
http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.32

When you do the capturing what counter (besides "Total") is stepped most in the Capture window?