Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Strange behaviour ethereal 0.9.0 (self compiled) capture

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 03:56:01 -0800
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:50:06PM +0100, pigi@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>  I' m having some trouble with the new ethereal.
> When I start ethereal and start a new capture ( or I read some capture )
> I get the message capture file is corrupted.

On what platform are you running Ethereal?

Does this happen if you download

	http://www.ethereal.com/sample/v6.pcap

and try to read that?

> I noticed that if I do a "save as" I get the default format to Nokia libpcap
> and if I save the file as a "libpcap" format, ethereal will then work.
> 
> Is there a way to change the default reading format in ethereal ?

No, because there *IS* no "default reading format" in Ethereal; Ethereal
looks at the file's header and contents to determine the type of the
file.