Kirk Schafer said:
> Thanks for developing and supporting this product. While capturing
> packets with Win32 Ethereal 0.9.7, I started to experience sudden
> crashes (lots of disk activity immediately before the program vanishes),
> usually when "stopping" a promiscuous mode capture.
This is probably due to a dissector bug in Ethereal, so that it crashes
when it reads the capture file after the capture is stopped.
There will probably be a capture in your temporary directory, which would
be somewhere under your "profile" directory - which will be a directory
whose name is your login name, under "C:\Documents and Settings"; there
will be some other directory, whose name I don't remember, under your
profile directory, with a name like "temp". (I'm typing this on MacOS X,
so I can't check what Windows does; as the girl in Jurassic Park said,
"this is UNIX".)
It will have a name beginning with "etherXXXX" or something such as that.
If you try to read it, Ethereal will probably crash.
If so, we'd either need a stack trace or a copy of the capture file in
order to debug the problem. (Do *NOT* reply only to me - I don't have
Ethereal on this machine, and don't have time to debug it until some time
after I return from IETF, and it might not be in code that I wrote in any
case; send it to the list.)
