Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal blocking when there is no traffic.

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From: "Lars Knudsen" <lk@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:35:55 +0100
Yes. And it helps to make a ping to anywhere on the net you are "sniffing"
at. But that is it. Nothing else (but waiting) is to do.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Bradford" <bradipo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Andy Bradford" <bradipo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx>; <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal blocking when there is no traffic.


> Thus said Andy Bradford on Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:02:40 MST:
>
>
> > What I mean by block is that when there is no traffic if I minimize the
> > window and bring it up again all the widgets turn grey as they don't
> > refresh and I cannot select any packets (even when auto-update of list)
> > is selected.  I am using version 0.7.7 and will upgrade to 0.7.8 soon
> > to see if it still does it. :)
> Ok, upgraded to 0.7.9 and it still does it.  I also made sure that I
> had patched libpcap with Guy's patch for linux and it still does it.  I
> guess I wasn't clear enough the first time I described the problem so I
> would like to clarify a bit here.  The problem is not with the main
> ethereal window but with the "Capture/Playback" window.  If I iconify
> it then de-iconify it, the text disappears until the next frame on the
> wire comes through.  That means I can't press stop until the next frame
> is captured, etc.  Has anyone else experienced this?
> Andy
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