Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Sample captures and an idea

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From: "Gilbert Ramirez Jr." <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:48:27 -0500
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 12:55:41PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> These may both be due to the "register.c" file used to build that
> snapshot being incomplete, i.e. not calling the register routines for
> certain protocols, so that they don't
> 
> 	1) initialize various internal data structures such as the hash
> 	   tables about which the warning messages are complaining;
> 
> 	2) register their protocol fields, so that when they try to add
> 	   that field to the protocol tree, the protocol-tree code finds
> 	   it doesn't know about that field, and therefore aborts the
> 	   program.
> 
> Unfortunately, the "register.c" file is constructed with tools that,
> whilst they're likely to be on most if not all UNIX-compatible OSes, are
> not necessarily present on Win32 systems, so the build might have used
> an older version of the file; when the Win32 builds are done, we should

Yes, my build might have been bad. I've uploaded a new zip file
to the ethereal ftp site. I unfortunately am not in a situation where
I can test it, but I did check the register.c file and it looks good.

--gilbert