Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1631] Wireshark crashes Windows XP machine

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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:07:33 +0000 (GMT)

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1631





------- Comment #4 from Christy.Winters@xxxxxxx  2007-06-01 00:07 GMT -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> For what it's worth I recently had a problem with Windows XP crashing quite
> reliably when using Wireshark & TShark (although I never did verify if the
> problem did or did not happen with windump).
> In my case I found that uninstalling the Microsoft Loopback Driver (which I had
> installed for testing Wireshark) made the problem go away. I got the feeling
> that there was some interaction between my firewall (Kerio) and the loopback
> driver. Since I don't know from Windows device drivers and my firewall is old &
> etc, I didn't pursue the matter.
> Just for curiosity's sake: what network devices/drivers & Firewalls are
> installed on your PC??

You've hit upon several good points.  Wireshark actually crashes several PC's
(configured to be routers) that are multihomed with multiple adapters.  It may
be that having multiple adapters is unusual for Wireshark. 
Thanks,
Christy


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