Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] "follow TCP stream" feature does not work

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:33:05 +0100
> I intended to watch a TCP connection (live capture mode)and everything
> worked fine at packet level. Of course, it would be much more useful if
> I could see the contents of the TCP stream. Unfortunately I always get
> an error message that tells me, that I have to select a packet
> containing the TCP protocol, before. Because I have selected such a
> package, this message is not very useful.

Are you REALLY sure? We sometimes watch HTTP traffic and we have no 
problems. But I think we still use 0.8.12...

> My second question is about speed. I captured about 50 packets in
> non-live mode (capture file size about 70kB) and the subsequent reading
> of the file took up to 10 seconds. Is this what I can expect at the
> system described above?

Have you disabled name lookup? I have seen that this will slow things 
down considerably.

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