Re: Ethereal Crashing on WinXP

[Ben Timby <asp () webexc com>]

Try another (older or newer) version. I have used Ethereal on XP systems 
for quite some time, I am using the beta version of both Ethereal and 
WinPCap at the moment with no problems.

Hope that helps.

Vijay Mishra wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Recently I had reformatted my system and install the XP again. Earlier
> ethereal was running fine on my machine with XP.
>
> But now when I go for capturing the packet though ethereal it crashes after
> I stop capturing. When I tried with option 'update list of packets in
> real-time', it crashed after capturing 20-25 packets and capture info window
> still showing that ethereal is capturing the packets. All the configuration
> setting is default. 
>
> I am totally confused and lost what might be the problem. Does anyone of you
> also encountered the same problem.
>
> I am using ethereal ver 0.10.6 and WinPcap ver 3.0
>
>  
>
> Best Regards
>
> Vijay Mishra
>
>
>
>
>
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