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| author | Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> | 1999-08-31 06:09:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> | 1999-08-31 06:09:25 +0000 |
| commit | 978375cc2bc36c90365c2fb27d06196887c137c7 (patch) | |
| tree | e7db4c57720e110a6b7dd34ccc32563ae4700a6c /README.linux | |
| parent | cc7387e116f1cbe3714978a44b32137ea89f1f09 (diff) | |
Added info about Linux libpcap misbehavior, and where to download the libpcap
patch.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=616
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diff --git a/README.linux b/README.linux new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7607306bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/README.linux @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +$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/ + |