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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Live capture stops suddenly

From: Chris Henderson <henders254@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:51:14 -0700
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Stephen Fisher
<steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:15:07PM +1100, Chris Henderson wrote:
>
>> I am running wireshark/ ethereal version 1.0.4 on Linux. My only
>> network interface is eth0 and when I start a live capture on eth0, it
>> stops capturing any packet after a while. It's hard to say when it
>> actually stops the capture as it's quite random. It doesn't give any
>> error, just sits there not capturing anything; although in the bottom
>> panel I can see: eth0: live capture in progress message. I have over
>> 10GB disk space in my /tmp directory.
>
> On the bottom of the screen, does it say that /tmp/ is where the
> temporary capture file is being saved?

Yes, it does.