Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal crash reading tcpdump '-r' file

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:25:58 -0400
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:50:25AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:25:27AM -0700, Marc Solsona Palomar wrote:
> > Sorry guys for not replying before. yesterday was a bad day. First fo
> > all, you are right, the log I sent you was from a Nokia box.
> > I though that it was the standard tcpdump from FBSD3.4. My fault. I
> > really apperciate your efforts trying to help me. Thanks. 
> 
> Well, here's a patch to the 0.8.12 version of Ethereal that appears to
> allow it to read the one capture file you sent, as well as the samples
> of other non-standard tcpdump capture files I have.
> 
> That will (unless it turns out to break other things) show up in the
> next release, but, as 0.8.12 just came out, the next release may not be
> for a while, so you may want to download the 0.8.12 source, apply the
> patch, and build it.

Wow. Congratulations on being able to wedge in even more heuristics
for the cornucopia of libpcap formats.

--gilbert