Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.13, WinPCap 3.0 alpha, and Win2KSP3 = 100% CPU

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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:21:27 +0100
Jason D Gross wrote: 
<I just downloaded WinPCap 3.0 alpha and the Ethereal 0.9.13 binary for my Win2K Pro SP3 PC to try it out, and every time I double-click
<the Ethereal icon, my CPU utilization shoots up to 100%.  No windows are displayed, they only way I know that the application is running
<is that is shows up in the Task Manager



You could check if the MIBDIRS environment variable is defined and pointing to a directory with some faulty MIBs that causes net-snmp
to hang.
The MIBDIRS environment variable is used by ucdsnmp/net-snmp. 

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