Load average spikes on loss of network device

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run SimpleSniffer on eth0
2. ifconfig eth0 down
3. check top the load average will spike

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect the the program to throw an error and and / or stop as it does 
if you start the program and the port doesn't exist

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Sniffer::Sniffer() : opening the sniffer: SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 02 Backtrak5 r3

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jgarvi...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2013 at 7:34

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Original comment by pellegre...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2013 at 2:38

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This is fixed on latest version in the git repo.

Original comment by pellegre...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2013 at 5:24

• Changed state: Fixed