Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.13, WinPCap 3.0 alpha, and Win2KSP3 = 100% CPU

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From: "Gross, Jason D" <GrossJD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:12:30 -0400
Well I checked it out and redefined it to point to the Ethereal mibs, and bingo...that did the trick!

Thanks for the help and quick response.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Regner [mailto:martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 4:21 PM
To: Gross, Jason D; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.13, WinPCap 3.0 alpha,and
Win2KSP3 = 100% CPU


Jason D Gross wrote: 
<I just downloaded WinPCap 3.0 alpha and the Ethereal 0.9.13 binary for my Win2K Pro SP3 PC to try it out, and every time I double-click
<the Ethereal icon, my CPU utilization shoots up to 100%.  No windows are displayed, they only way I know that the application is running
<is that is shows up in the Task Manager



You could check if the MIBDIRS environment variable is defined and pointing to a directory with some faulty MIBs that causes net-snmp
to hang.
The MIBDIRS environment variable is used by ucdsnmp/net-snmp. 

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