Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] -a duration broken

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From: "Roy Kidder" <RoyKidder@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
I ran into an issue with ethereal that may or may not have already been
covered on this list.

The '-a duration:' switch doesn't operate as expected should there not be
any packets captured which satisfy the filters.

For example,

# tethereal -a duration:60 -i eth0 host 10.1.1.1

won't stop after the expected 60 seconds should there not be any traffic
to/from 10.1.1.1 on eth0.

Anyone else experience this?

Thanks,
Roy

tethereal 0.9.15
Compiled with GLib 1.2.10, with libpcap 0.7.2, with libz 1.1.4,
without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS
Running on Linux 2.4.20-8smp