On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:35:49PM -0400, CJ Miller wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu, a broadcom wireless card, and Wireshark 0.99.6 . I
> started a live capture and in the Capture Interfaces window it shows
> that there have been 2 million+ packets on this interface, but the
> capture window is only showing about 25,000. I have capturing in
> promiscuous mode on, and no filters or limits turned on. Could someone
> please explain the discrepancy?
This sounds like a bug. Does it happen every time you capture that many
packets? Do you have a capture file that you can save and reopen and it
shows that problem every time? Could you try a newer version of
Wireshark (1.0 is out) and see if you have the same problem?
Steve