Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Guy Scharf wrote:
> >
> >
> > When using -S, the UI sometimes freezes for "long" periods. It does seem
> > eventually to come back to life. By "long," I mean 10 to 20 seconds or
> > more
> > (I didn't measure the time accurately). This freezing occurs before and
> > after making the init_mib() change.
> >
> > Has anything like this behavior been reported against 0.7.2?
>
> I have seen this on my new Linux box at home, especially just after
> I stop the capture. I don't have the specially-patched pcap for linux,
> so I assumed it was just that problem. Are you running on Linux? If
> so, are you running a standard libpcap like me?
>
Yes, this should be due to the non patched libpcap library that does not
correctly handle the timeout specified at pcap_open_live call. The freeze
period is directly related to the lack of captured packets.
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