Hi,
I have encountered what may be a bug with ethereal-current (compiled
from CVS on Feb 19 2002).
Attempting to view an 802.11 authentication packet results in the
following error:
[bdy@localhost ~/sniffs]$ ethereal
** ERROR **: file proto.c: line 1653 (alloc_field_info): assertion failed: (hfinfo->type == FT_PROTOCOL || hfinfo->type == FT_NONE || hfinfo->type == FT_BYTES || hfinfo->type == FT_STRING)
aborting...
Abort
[bdy@localhost ~/sniffs]$
Procedure: open attached trace file, attempt to view packets 19 or 20.
The trace file was captured using the same version of ethereal, and
is a trace of packets between a Linksys WAP11 AP, and a Lucent
WaveLAN NIC.
System is running RedHat 7.2 with 2.4.16 kernel:
[bdy@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.16 #4 Tue Feb 19 10:34:31 EST 2002 i686 unknown
Ethereal 0.9.1-current
GTK+ 1.2.10
Libpcap 0.7.1
[bdy@localhost ~]$ ethereal -v
ethereal 0.9.1, with GTK+ 1.2.10, with GLib 1.2.10, with libpcap 0.7, with libz 1.1.3, without SNMP
802.11 drivers:
aironet drivers from airo-linux.sourceforge.net, airo.c version 0.3:
[root@localhost eth1]# pwd
/proc/driver/aironet/eth1
[root@localhost eth1]# cat Status
Status: CFG ACT SYN LNK
Mode: 3f
Signal Strength: 45
Signal Quality: 22
SSID: ####################
AP: #######
Freq: 0
BitRate: 11mbs
Driver Version: airo.c 0.3 (Ben Reed & Javier Achirica)
Device: 350 Series
Manufacturer: Cisco Systems
Firmware Version: 4.23
Radio type: 2
Country: 0
Hardware Version: 22
Software Version: 423
Software Subversion: 0
Boot block version: 150
[root@localhost eth1]#
Please let me know if you are unable to replicate the problem.
BTW - ethereal rocks, thanks for such a useful tool!
Cheers,
Brian
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