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?..
And that fixed the problem for me
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 :
Hey, i had the same problem, and it helped me to fixe it :D Thank you
@mohamed
Thanks Mohamed for your comment. I'm glad it helped you.
Thanks Dude... that fixed it!!
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