Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Live capture stops suddenly

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:15:38 -0600
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:15:07PM +1100, Chris Henderson wrote:

> I am running wireshark/ ethereal version 1.0.4 on Linux. My only 
> network interface is eth0 and when I start a live capture on eth0, it 
> stops capturing any packet after a while. It's hard to say when it 
> actually stops the capture as it's quite random. It doesn't give any 
> error, just sits there not capturing anything; although in the bottom 
> panel I can see: eth0: live capture in progress message. I have over 
> 10GB disk space in my /tmp directory.

On the bottom of the screen, does it say that /tmp/ is where the 
temporary capture file is being saved?


Steve