Wednesday, November 27, 2013

GNS3: Windows 8, wireshark – ”dumpcap has stopped working”

 

dumpcap has stopped

Specs: Windows 8, GNS3 0.8.6, Wireshark 1.10.3

This is the error I kept receiving today. I was trying to capture traffic off a network link on my GNS3 topology.

I wanted to see what kind of traffic passes through that point of the network. But, this became impossible as I kept getting the above error as soon as I tried to open wireshark from within GNS3 to view the captured traffic:

“Dumpcap has stopped working”

subsequently I received this error as well:

“child dumpcap process died. access violation”

Google searches did not reveal much help but suggested running both GNS3 and Wireshark as ‘administrator’. So I tried that, but without much luck.

Then the thought occurred to me that I might be having all this trouble because of Windows 8! So why not try running Wireshark with Windows 7 compatible mode?..

compatibility mode

And that fixed the problem for me Ok-icon

looks like some others were having similar issues: http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/26517/winpcap-seems-to-crash-on-win81

So I posted my solution there as well in case it’ll save someone else the trouble.

Back to networking..



3 comments :

Anonymous said...

Hey, i had the same problem, and it helped me to fixe it :D Thank you

Pasan said...

@mohamed

Thanks Mohamed for your comment. I'm glad it helped you.

Unknown said...

Thanks Dude... that fixed it!!

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