Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] MS Netmon 2.x trace which gives "corrupt file" when loaded

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:27:33 -0600
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:57:37AM -0600, Fabrizio Ammollo wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> > Can you send your trace file to ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx? When gzipped, if 
> it's
> > still big (> 1 MB), let me know and we'll arrange something.
> 
> Here it is (VRU.CAP.gz) , it's about 19Kb and 134Kb uncompressed.
> 
> > What would also be a big help would be a printout or screen dump of
> > the summary information of the first few packets and the last few
> > packets in the trace, to make sure we correctly fix our netmon-reading
> > routines.
> 
> I too have a file dump produced by saving into a file from Netmon, I'll 
> send you
> with this message the first 10 and the last 10 packets from it.. (see the
> attached file netmon.txt.gz) if it's not enough, when compressed the whole 
> file
> is about 143Kb (uncompressed it is about 2527Kb).

I was unable to uncompress those two files. Gzip complained about CRC errors.
Maybe you're having a disk problem... corrupt netmon file, corrupt gzip files... :-)

--gilbert