Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Packets captured too long

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:11:38 +0100 (MET)
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Guy Harris wrote:

> > when I do packet capturing with eth 0.8.1 all packets seem to be captured
> > with a length of 1514 bytes (on the ethernet):
> > Frame xxxx (1514 on wire, 1514 captured)
> 
> What happens if you do a capture with "tcpdump -s 65535", and read the
> capture file with Ethereal?

The same. so I decided to upgrade to tcpdump + libpcap current (28_01) and
the problem is the same. It is still the same when I look at the capture
file with tcpdump, so it looks like a libpcap or kernel problem to me.

 Ciao
      Jörg

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