Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Creating a dissector

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:55:29 -0800
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:04:40PM -0500, Parks, Chauni wrote:
> To answer you last question:
> My dissector was registered properly, however once I select that protocol,
> ethereal crashes and I get a segmentation fault error.

If it said " - core dumped" after reporting the segmentation fault (I'm
assuming you ran it from the command line), you should use gdb on the
core dump file to see where it crashed - it might be a bug in your
dissector, or it might be a bug in the rest of Ethereal.