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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:03:47 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?
Message-ID:  <F2556B37-BE3D-11D8-A396-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040614152304.1c6e2acf.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20040614152304.1c6e2acf.wmoran@potentialtech.com>

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On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
> Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes.
>
> Anyone else seeing this trouble?  Anyone got any suggestions?

Hmm, try using tcpdump?  Also, I've seen packet sniffers freeze like 
this if they try to perform DNS lookups and are waiting for answers 
(due to DNS being slow, unavailable, etc)....

-- 
-Chuck



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