Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 3 long-standing Ethereal issues...

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From: Ron Flory <ron.flory@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:22:44 -0600
Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 09:12, Ron Flory wrote:
> > hi-
> >
> >
> > 3. Expanding/displaying the payload of the last packet of a chain of
> >    RIPv2-Responce packets locks Ethereal up dead-solid.  This
> >    happens every time and can only be recovered by killing the 
> >    Ethereal process.
> >
> >  Thanks for listening.
> 
> Do you have a sample capture file that shows this behavior? It would 
> be helpful to have in order to fix the problem.

 Well, I guess I'm a liar.

 Although I saw this lockup as recently as yesterday, I can't seem to make
it happen today.  Perhaps the routing tables in that router have changed
recently.

 If this happens again, I'll make sure I have a capture file in-hand
_before_ stirring up trouble... ;)

ron