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Buffer size error during remote capture (wireshark-1.12.4)

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I am performing remote capture between Linux and Windows machine. Remote machine is Linux and local machine is Windows. While doing this i came across a warning saying "Couldn't Set the capture buffer size!" (attached the snapshot). alt text I am using Wireshark-1.12.4 version. Verified the same with Wireshark-1.6.1 and 1.10.8 it worked fine. Please let me know what could be the issue.

Thank you.

asked 20 May '15, 06:26

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Sainath
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One Answer:

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You're basically running into a combination of problems:

  1. Bug 9067: Wireshark tries (and fails) to set the buffer size on remote capture devices (only if the buffer size is > 1 Mbyte). It shouldn't even try.
  2. (and) in 1.12 the default buffer size was increased to 2 Mb (which means you always run into (1)).

For now you can ignore the annoying popup. Or change the buffer size of the capture device to 1 before starting the capture.

answered 20 May '15, 08:18

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Hi Jeff,

This worked for me, i changed the buffer size to 1 Mb, the popup is not showing now. Thank you for your answer.

Sainath

(22 May '15, 07:44) Sainath

I merged a change which should fix this error, you can try an automated build with a sequence number of 707 or greater to see if it fixes the problem.

(28 May '15, 06:13) JeffMorriss ♦