d) If you still get packet drops, it might be an idea to use a tool dedicated to packet capturing and only use Ethereal for displaying and analyzing the packets.
-Have a look at tethereal, the command line variant of ethereal, which is included in this package.
+Have a look at tshark, the command line variant of ethereal, which is included in this package.
XXX: add a list of possibly useful standalone capture programs.