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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1348] New: wireshark/tshark extremely slow to start with l

Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:54:10 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1348

           Summary: wireshark/tshark extremely slow to start with lots of
                    interfaces.
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Medium
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Build Information:
[root@dc2-1u lanforge]# tethereal -v
TShark 0.99.4

Copyright 1998-2006 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled with GLib 2.10.2, with libpcap 0.9.4, with libz 1.2.3, with libpcre
6.3, with Net-SNMP 5.3, without ADNS, without Lua, with GnuTLS 1.2.10, with
Gcrypt 1.2.2, with MIT Kerberos.

Running on Linux 2.6.18.2, with libpcap version 0.9.4.

Built using gcc 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1).

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I'm trying to run tshark, tethereal and wireshark on a system with ~250
virtual ethernet-like interfaces.  All of them are extremely slow to start,
even when I specify the exact interface I want to sniff on the command line.

tcpdump starts with no noticeable delay.


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