Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal disrupts my network communication - Please help?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andre Viljoen wrote:

> I ping my gateway (or any other address) on my network continuously and 
> get replies to all my pings.
> Then I start ethereal and start a new live capture (promiscuous mode or 
> not makes no difference).
> As soon as the capture is started, the pings start timing out.
> When I stop the capture, the pings start replying again.

On what operating system is this happening?

If it's some version of Windows, try running WinDump instead of 
Ethereal; if the same problem occurs, report this to the WinPcap developers.

If it's some UN*X-flavored OS, try running tcpdump instead of Ethereal; 
if the same problem occurs, report it to the OS vendor if it's a 
commercial UN*X (including commercial Linux distributions and Mac OS X), 
or report it to the appropriate bug database if it's a non-commercial 
Linux distribution or one of the non-commercial BSDs.