Windows may be trying NetBIOS lookups for the IP addresses in
addition to DNS. If so, this isn't anything Ethereal can control.
Try cruising over to MS' site and search their knowledge base for registry
settings. You're looking for the setting for NetBIOS node type. I
personally set mine to a "P" node so that it only uses WINS to do NetBIOS
lookups. I believe the defaults always include using broadcasts, either
before or after WINS or as the only option if you don't have a WINS server
setup. Broadcast NetBIOS name lookups are evil, and should be avoided at
all costs...
HTH,
Fred
Reimer
Eclipsys Corporation
I've noticed that the DNS resolution is a *lot*
slower on win32 than on Linux. I haven't looked into it
with any detail to know why (that is, is it
something that we can fix?). If you turn off name resolution
during
the capture, does it run faster? When it
runs slow, does it miss packets?
--gilbert
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:49
AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] ethereal
running slow on winnt
Can someone help I have install
ethereal on to my nt computer and it running a lot slow the no my old Linux
box
in
task manager the service only seems to firer every now and again
can
some one help speeding it up
many
thanks
alistair
holyhead
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