Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal is hanging [etherXXXX]

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From: Jonathan Anand Fernandes <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:06:29 +0800 (GMT-8)
Hi all- 

    I haven't used Ethereal for about 2/3 weeks, but I am a bit confused
by the fact that Ethereal seems to be "hanging". Someone else seemed to
have had the same problem earlier this month, with the "loading
etherXXXX" window. 
    
    Thinking perhaps that it was some new bug, I upgraded to version
15. These are my settings :
ethereal 0.8.15, with GTK+ 1.2.8, with libpcap 0.4, with libz 1.1.3, with
UCD SNMP 4.0.1 

If I am not mistaken, I think it was Justin McNutt who had some
"etherXXXX" problems too. (If you managed to fix your problem, please send
me a mail :-) )
 I find it strange because :
1. 3 weeks ago I had no problems with Ethereal hanging
2. I am working on a private LAN, when I do 'ping' captures using Ethereal
there seems to be no problem, however when using "real" data from the main
school network, Ethereal hangs. (I am not sure how relevant this
observation is) 
3. I think it was Justin again who mentioned having saved the etherXXXX
trace. Would that help ? I could easily make a copy available on the Web,
however I don't know how to save the etherXXXX file. :-P

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.


jonathan