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

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From: "Guy Scharf" <guy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:27:33 -0700
> > 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

Yes, RedHat 5.2 with libpcap downloaded from the usual lbl site.

Guy