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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] alias problem

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:29:35 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

Your correct, see http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1151

Thanx,
Jaap

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Miha Jemec wrote:

> Hi!
>
>         If I have more alias IP addresses on one ethernet interface, the
>         wireshark application gets into problem.
>
>         I have latest official wireshark version 0.99.4 running on a
>         high end server (Intel Core2 Duo with 12 GB of memory).
>
>         I have 1016 alias addresses configured on one interface. When I
>         press Capture->Start button it takes 55s to open next window and
>         additional 20s to start capturing.
>
>         And the Capture Dialog window doesn't display the IP addresses
>         correctly. The window gets very wide and the addresses are
>         overlapped (look the attachment).
>
>         I think even if 1000+ alias IP addresses are not the most common
>         configuration, this is still a bug?
>
>         Regards, Miha
>