Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Locking up

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:17:55PM -0600, Gregg.Hope@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ethereal had been working great but for some reason it now locks up my
> computer every time I try to capture any packets.
> I have uninstalled it and Winpcap and reinstalled but it still locks up. Is
> there any software Ethereal doesn't like? any suggestions?

Try it with WinDump.

If it locks up with WinDump as well, there might be a WinPcap problem.

If it doesn't, there may be some Ethereal problem, but I don't know what
it might be.  Try capturing with WinDump with the command-line option
"-s 65535", and with the "-w" option with the pathname of some file as
the argument to the "-w" option, and then try to get Ethereal to read
the capture file it captured.  (Do *NOT* try that without the "-w"
flag.)