Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] noob question about time/elapsed time
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From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:37:48 +0200
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:21:51AM -0400, Server Admn wrote:
>     
>    I set up a capture to run for 60 seconds.  The capture starts & then stops
>    after a minute, which is what I expected.

Good!

>    When I bring up the Statistics -> Summary window, it shows the elpased
>    time as roughly 10 seconds.  (I've tried this several times).  The traffic
>    during these tests is constant, and continues for 60 seconds, it's not
>    like there is only 10 seconds worth of traffic and 50 seconds of
>    idleness during the minute.

Not so good... Can you paste the output of "Help -> About Wireshark"?
This might be an issue with libpcap or WinPcap. These libraries provide
the timestamps to the packets.

Cheers,
    Sake