Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] UI Freezes with 0.7.2

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:59:05 -0500
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Guy Scharf wrote:
> 
> 
> When using -S, the UI sometimes freezes for "long" periods.  It does seem
> eventually to come back to life.  By "long," I mean 10 to 20 seconds or 
> more
> (I didn't measure the time accurately).  This freezing occurs before and
> after making the init_mib() change.
> 
> Has anything like this behavior been reported against 0.7.2?

I have seen this on my new Linux box at home, especially just after
I stop the capture. I don't have the specially-patched pcap for linux,
so I assumed it was just that problem. Are you running on Linux? If
so, are you running a standard libpcap like me?

--gilbert