He's probably just forgotten to put the libpcap patch on... I had the same
problems when I first looked at ethereal a long time ago.
Any plans to integrate that into the distribution - perhaps as a subdir that
is configured at the same time as ethereal?
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@xxxxxxx
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Ramirez [mailto:gram@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:23 AM
> To: Thomas Parvais
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] slow capture ?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 08:01:08AM -0500, Thomas Parvais wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I find the capturing very very slow.... when Ethereal
> transfer packets to
> > the GUI, it's very slow. Why ?
> >
> > I use a performant PC !
> >
> > Thomas
>
> What OS are you using?
> When capturing, what settings do you use for:
>
> Update list of packets in real time
> Enable name resolution
>
>
> Also, what type of interface are you sniffing? 10 Mbps Ethernet?
> 100 Mbps Ethernet? Is there a lot of traffic on that network?
>
>
> --gilbert
>
