Ethereal-users: Re: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture filters work on Solaris, but not AIX

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:13:05 -0700
The ; in the command was intentional - to run tethereal in foreground while the background nslookup runs after a 2 second sleep.

# tcpdump -h
Version 2.2.1
Usage: tcpdump [-defIlnOpqtvx] [-c count] [-i interface]
               [-F filename] [-r filename] [-w filename] [expr]
# tethereal -v
tethereal 0.10.10
Compiled with GLib 2.2.3, with libpcap 0.8.3, with libz 1.2.1, with libpcre 5.0,
without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS.
Running with libpcap version 0.8.3 on AIX 5.2.

--

Jim

> jim.mewes@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > The problem still exists on AIX.  tcpdump works, but returns the packet information after a long delay (10-30 seconds).
> > 
> >   (sleep 2;nslookup www.yahoo.com) & ; tcpdump -l -c 1 udp port 53
> 
> Whereas
> 
> 	(sleep 2; nslookup www.yahoo.com) & tethereal -l -c 1 udp port 53
> 
> (I assume the semicolon was a typo) doesn't work?
> 
> What do
> 
> 	tcpdump -h
> 
> and
> 
> 	tethereal -v
> 
> report?
> 
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