Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [gtk2] Refresh problem in the Captured packets dialog box

["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jean-Baptiste Marchand said:
> ethereal 0.10.4 (CVS 20040606104911)
> Compiled with GTK+ 2.4.2, with GLib 2.4.2, with libpcap 0.7+multidlt,
> with libz 1.1.4, with libpcre 4.4, with Net-SNMP 5.1, without ADNS.

Where's the rest of the information Ethereal reported - i.e., the "Running
with" information?

> More precisely, the timer at the bottom of the dialog box is only
> refreshed when packets are captured (if, for instance, no packets are
> captured during 5 seconds, the timer is not updated and the window is
> not refreshed).

You might be running on an OS whose packet capture mechanism has no
timeouts *OR* whose packet capture mechanism has timeouts *BUT* the
timeout starts as soon as the first packet is seen (e.g., Solaris) *AND*
that's not one of the platforms on which Ethereal defines MUST_DO_SELECT.

However, the only OSes on which it currently *doesn't* define
MUST_DO_SELECT are {Free,Net,Open}BSD, BSD/OS (presumed to define
__bsdi__), Mac OS X (presumed to define __APPLE__), Win32 (_WIN32
defined), and Cygwin (__CYGWIN__ defined).

The "Running on" information should indicate what OS you're using.