Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal crashes Win XP.

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:16:38 -0800
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:48:55AM +0100, Dugroin ! wrote:
> I just downloaded the newest version of Ethereal, and it seems that Win XP
> crashes (blue screen and immediate reboot) when starting to receive packets
> (not before)... I hesitate to consider it as sad... or funny ;-)

Well, that *is* a risk you run when adding third-party drivers to your
OS, which is what you have to do in order to capture packets.

I'd suggest that you download WinDump and try capturing packets with it
- specify a snapshot length of 65535 with "-s 65535", and write to a
file with the "-w" flag.

If it crashes when you do that, it's probably either a bug in the
WinPcap driver or in Windows XP; in either case, you should report it to
the WinPcap developers:

	http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm