From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 20:05:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E15316A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:05:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED6443D55 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:05:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i5EK4owH004082; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)i5EK3vDp002950; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:04:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20040614152304.1c6e2acf.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040614152304.1c6e2acf.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:03:47 -0400 To: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:05:10 -0000 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