Bryan Cook wrote: ><original> >I installed Ethereal 0.9.11 and WinPcap 3.0 beta on one W2K machine and it >runs fine. When I saw how useful this product will be, I installed both on a >Thinkpad laptop. When I launch the application on the laptop, the >application screen never appears. However, ethereal is running and using >95%+ of the processor. What have I missed? > ><new> >It appears that the problem is due to the MIBDIRS and MIBS environment >variables pointing to items created when I installed Enterasys' software. I >saw in the archives where this has happened to someone else. I am unclear >as to the best solution. Please advise. >
There is maybe one or more errors in one or several of the MIBs that are located in the MIBDIRS directory, e.g. missing IMPORT ... FROM - as in my case. The output from snmptransate (net-snmp) and/or smilint (libsmi) may hint which MIB(s) is/are incorrect and what the fault is. http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00090.html http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00089.html http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00093.html I guess that you could try to contact Enterasys and ask them if they have any updated MIBs. However it's not good that a fault in a MIB causes Ethereal to hang without any warning or similar. I don't know if a later version of net-snmp should solve this or if there is a good way of avoiding the problem in Ethereal. I had one idea to add a prefernce setting whether Ethereal should use the MIBDIRS directory or it's own directory <ETHEREAL_DIRECTORY>/snmp/mibs/. Regards, Martin
