$Id: README.linux,v 1.1 1999/08/31 06:09:25 gram Exp $

The standard libpcap compiled for Linux has a timeout problem.
If you use Ethereal with this libpcap on a not-so-busy network, at
times you will see that the Ethereal GUI freezes. It will freeze until
one more packet is received.

As of version 0.4 of libpcap this problem still exists. This is the
version of libpcap that comes with the standard Linux distributions.
If the freezing really annoys you, you can apply a patch to the libpcap
source code.

Libpcap can be obtained from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov

You can download the Linux patch at http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald/