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

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:01:56 +0200
Are you using vlan tags? 
if so, try "vlan and your_capture_filter" 

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:54:36 -0700, jim.mewes@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<jim.mewes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This simple capture filter works fine on Solaris ...
> 
>   tethereal udp port 53
> 
> but not on AIX or Linux.
> 
> tethereal seems to work fine on AIX and Linux without a capture filter, but no packets are captured when any filter is used.  This behavior is consistent in versions 0.10.8, 0.10.9, and 0.10.10.
> 
> The various tethereal versions I'm currently testing ...
> 
> Solaris 2.6 and 2.8 ...
> 
> tethereal 0.10.9
> 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 SunOS 5.8.
> 
> Linux ...
> 
> tethereal 0.10.10
> Compiled with GLib 2.4.8, with libpcap 0.8.3, with libz 1.2.1.2,
> with libpcre 5.0, without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS.
> Running with libpcap version 0.8.3 on Linux 2.6.10-1.14_FC2smp.
> 
> AIX ...
> 
> 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.
> 
> Has anybody seen this before, and if so is there a fix?
> 
> --
> 
> Jim
> 
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