[ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:29:05AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:44:13AM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:45:33PM -0600, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I've built Ethereal 0.8.16 on Solaris 2.6, 7, 8/SPARC. Running it
> > > always gives the following:
> > >   Message: pcap: File has 319744-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535
> > > 
> > > This is with libpcap 0.5.2 and 0.6.2. Is this a known problem? Tcpdump
> > > 3.5.2 and 3.6.2 work fine.
> > 
> > FYI, just built 0.8.16 on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 against libpcap 0.6.2.
> > Works just fine!  Something odd is going on with Solaris.
> > 
> > Sunfreeware.com has 0.8.12 for Solaris 8/SPARC so I built 0.8.12 and
> > get the same error as above! I tried the Sun C 5.2 compiler and GCC
> > 2.95.2 and both failed.
> 
> Ok, we've narrowed down the problem to zlib. We build zlib with LFS.

Ok, problem solved. HAVE_UNISTD_H in zconf.h strikes again! Building
ethereal with LFS support solved out problem (patches to follow
later).

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albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)