Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.14 locks up on "large" captures .

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:26:17 -0600 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Ramirez [mailto:gram@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 9:22 PM

> I got the file, thanks. It had exactly 10,000 frames in it. 
> It worked just fine,
> using the current CVS version of Ethereal. There was a *big* 
> difference of load
> times between enabling and disabling name lookups. But at no time did
> Ethereal/tethereal hang or crash.
> 
> I ran "time tethereal -r mcnutt.cap" and it took 10 minutes 
> for the whole file
> to print out to my screen.
> 
> I then ran "time tethereal -n -r mcnutt.cap", where the "-n" 
> disables name
> lookups, and it took only 6.9 seconds for the whole file to 
> be processed
> and print to my screen.
> 
> If you disable name lookups (either via command-line or via GUI), does
> Ethereal hang?

I ran "tethereal -n -r etherXXXXetc".  It consistently hangs at packet 5367
(I don't see packet 5368).

I will still download the latest CVS and see if it solves my problem (as it
sounds like it should), but I thought knowing which packet caused the
problem might confirm what fixed it (if this was a known bug at some point).

--J