Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] AIX: gtk problem solved, now an ethereal problem

[Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 12:50:17PM -0600, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:18:51AM -0600, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > So after doing all these things, I can compile ethereal and run it.
> > I can list the
> > correct network interfaces on my system: lo0 and en0.  However,
> > when I start capturing packets on en0, they are all of the protocol type
> > "TRMAC" and "TR".  The only problem is, I'm not on a Token Ring network.
> 
> Libpcap is putting a DLT type of 6 in the capture file, which is IEEE802,
> which on other platforms is used to denote token-ring (802.5).
> On non-AIX platforms, a DLT type of 1 is used for ethernet.
> 
> Let me download the libpcap source to dig into that.
> 
> Using AIX's native, hacked tcpdump, with the -w option, can you
> correctly read those capture files with ethereal. That is, do they
> come up as ethernet?

YES!!  Cool, thanks.  Well, I can read the captured file
with tcpdump -r.

Now, I'm having some problems if I click on Open or Save in
ethereal.  Things coredump inside gdk_string_width() if that
function is called from gtk_file_selection_populate().
This looks more like a GTK problem now, so that's not too bad. 

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Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
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