http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1348
Summary: wireshark/tshark extremely slow to start with lots of
interfaces.
Product: Wireshark
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: Medium
Component: Wireshark
AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Build Information:
[root@dc2-1u lanforge]# tethereal -v
TShark 0.99.4
Copyright 1998-2006 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled with GLib 2.10.2, with libpcap 0.9.4, with libz 1.2.3, with libpcre
6.3, with Net-SNMP 5.3, without ADNS, without Lua, with GnuTLS 1.2.10, with
Gcrypt 1.2.2, with MIT Kerberos.
Running on Linux 2.6.18.2, with libpcap version 0.9.4.
Built using gcc 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1).
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I'm trying to run tshark, tethereal and wireshark on a system with ~250
virtual ethernet-like interfaces. All of them are extremely slow to start,
even when I specify the exact interface I want to sniff on the command line.
tcpdump starts with no noticeable delay.
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