Mysteriously stops...

[Norman Elton <wnelto () net wm edu>]

We've got a system running RedHat Enterprise WS 3.1, kernel 
2.4.21-9.0.1, running tcpdump 3.7.2 and libpcap 0.7.2. When I run a 
tcpdump (tcpdump -i eth2 -nne), things run fine for about two minutes, 
then the dump mysterious stops, as if I killed it using Control-C. It 
reports the number of packets analyzed and drops, and returns me to the 
command line.

Needless to say, I didn't ask the dump to stop! This doesn't happen on 
other boxes, but it does happen on other interfaces on the same server 
running the Intel e100 driver. A card running e1000 doesn't seem to 
have any problems.

I'm at a loss for ideas. Is there a valid reason why a tcpdump would 
stop without my telling it to do so?

Thanks,

Norman

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Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790

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