Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Packet capture halts.

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:24:11 -0600
Incidentally, it appears that when tcpdump fails (and BTW, I get *zero*
packets from the kernel when it fails), there are about 100 dropped packets,
three overruns, and a couple of frame errors on the eth1 device.  The RX
packets no longer count up.

If I do 'ifconfig eth1 down ; ifconfig eth1 up' the RX packets start
counting up again, but I don't get errors until I actually try to capture
again.

--J

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris
To: McNutt, Justin M.
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 2/19/01 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Packet capture halts.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:17:42PM -0600, McNutt, Justin M. wrote:
> I have a problem where packet captures will halt after a few seconds
of
> capturing.

Does tcpdump exhibit the same behavior?