Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Preparing for 1.0

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

John McDermott wrote:

> Can we please add something like "Better support for OpenBSD" or even 
> "OpenBSD binaries on our site"?
> I do not use OpenBSD, but I have friends who do and they often complain 
> to me about the difficulty of getting Ethereal working.

Solving that would either require

	1) a working OpenBSD system on which to test (I don't have one, 
although perhaps plugging my Inspiron 8000 into an Ethernet, or using a 
different 802.11 card, would fix that)

or

	2) a sufficiently-good description of the problems.

> One had a 
> problem recently with the number of open files required, for example.  
> He said he had to up his quota from 128 (he set it at 512) in order to 
> get Ethereal to start.

To *start*?  I.e., even without *doing* anything in Ethereal - not 
opening a file, not starting a capture, not anything - he had to raise 
his file descriptor limit to get it just to pop up the main window?

If it requires more than 128 file descriptors, that's a bug somewhere, 
whether it's in Ethereal or some library Ethereal's using.

I set my limit down to 128 on OS X and Ethereal started up fine.