Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 'ip6' filter on Solaris does not work?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:08:34 -0800
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:13:40PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> Correction, it usually crashes.
> 
> program terminated by signal ABRT (Abort)
> 0xfee1d3d4: _libc_kill+0x0008:  bgeu    _libc_kill+0x30
> Current function is capture
> dbx: warning: can't find file "/home/gerald/devel/ethereal/capture.c"
> dbx: warning: see `help finding-files'
> (/opt/WS6U2/bin/sparcv9/dbx) where
>   [1] _libc_kill(0x0, 0x6, 0xffbec2c0, 0x500c00, 0x447000, 0x515000), at
> 0xfee1d3d4
>   [2] abort(0x24fa38, 0x3c, 0x24fa28, 0x600108, 0x500c00, 0x0), at
> 0xfedb5690
>   [3] gen_proto_abbrev(0x10, 0x98, 0x25750c, 0x0, 0x446800, 0x449800), at
> 0x24fa28

That's a libpcap bug, not an Ethereal bug.

What version of libpcap are you using?  If it's not the current CVS
version, try that; if that still fails, report the bug on the
SourceForge site for libpcap (see the tcpdump.org home page for
details).