>I am running Win2K SP3 and just de-installed WinPcap 2.2 and installed >WinPcap 3.0 followed by Ethereal 0.9.13. > >When I start a packet capture, things seem to go OK for a few seconds, then >the counters of the number of packets captured seems to jump dramatically, >followed by 100 % processor utilization. > >Didn't have this issue with WinPcap2.2 and Ethereal 0.9.12. > >Is this a known problem? Don't know whether WinPcap or the new Ethereal is >causing this problem.
Do you have "Enable network name resolution" turned on in Edit/Preferences.../Name resolution ? http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.32 When you do the capturing what counter (besides "Total") is stepped most in the Capture window?
