Hi Peter,

I guess you can't read a book either when asleep? So when your system 
goes to sleep it shuts the network interfaces. That just kills the 
capture session. If you want to keep programs running while your away 
from the machine, don't let it fall asleep.

Thanx,
Jaap

Peter Shimmel wrote:
> We recently installed Wireshark, but keep receiving this error:
> 
>  
> 
>                         Error while capturing packet: read error: packet 
> receive packet failed.
> 
>                         Do not report as a crash failure
> 
>  
> 
> We run the software, and when we return to the machine, it is in sleep 
> mode, could that be causing this error?  Does the Wireshark still record 
> data while the laptop is on screensaver and in sleep mode?  Thank You
> 

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