Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Token Ring Promiscuous lockup

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:43:07PM +0200, tschouteden@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I just installed Ethereal which was included with Red Hat 8.0.  I am using
> a 3Com TokenLink Velocity XL (with the 3c359 kernel module).
> When I fire up Ethereal and start capturing (without any special filters or
> options) the application locks up the system (X Freezes) and nothing works
> any more: cold reset required.

What happens if you fire up tcpdump on the same device?

Is the *entire* machine frozen, or just X?  (Can you log into the
machine from another machine, and kill off the Ethereal process, for
example?)

> I noticed that when I manually put the NIC in promiscuous mode using
> ifconfig, I get a lot of kernel messages and after a certain time the
> system crashes as well.
> What could be causing this?

A bug in the driver for the token ring interface?