Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal 0.8.11: error displaying outgoing packets on inter

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From: huels@xxxxxxxxx (Stefan Huelswitt)
Date: 13 Aug 2000 10:04:36 GMT
On 13 Aug 2000 Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, the attached patch, to the current CVS version of "packet-raw.c"
> (which is also the version in 0.8.10 and 0.8.11) appears to handle the
> *second* capture Reinhard Nissl sent out (the one with the 10 bytes of
> zero before the IP header), and also appears to handle your capture
> (where there's one byte, with some mysterious value, before the PPP
> header).

This does the trick, as far as I can see from a short test.
Thanks a lot for the fast response :-)

> Hopefully the Linux ISDN developers won't put their minds to coming up
> with yet *another* wacky pile of gunk at the beginning of the packet....

Isn't there any documentation about how the packets are
assembled? This really can't be such a secret thing.

Anyway: Thanks again.

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