Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Strange packets

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
Bob DeBolt said:

> Frame 23044 ( 0 bytes on wire, 0 bytes captured)
>    Arrival Time: Dec 31, 1969 17:00:00.000000000
>    Time delta from previous packet: -1093865369.699563000 seconds
>    Time since reference or first frame: -1093863602.414474000 seconds
>    Frame Number: 23044
>    Packet Length: 0 bytes
>    Capture Length: 0 bytes
>   [Malformed Packet: Ethernet]

Looks like a corrupted log file.  The stuff in the header is extremely
bogus (and those values don't come from the bytes on the packet as it
arrived over the wire), so there's no point in even thinking about the
contents of the packet.

What program is writing the log?