Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RTP Analysis writes to /tmp endlessly

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:07:00 -0800
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:57:10AM +0100, Thomas Anders wrote:
> while latest Ethereal 0.9.15 normally works like a charm
> for us (thanks so much), it chokes on some capture files when
> doing RTP Analysis. It writes to /tmp/ethereal_rtp_fwdXXXXetzbX1
> "endlessly", i.e. until it hits a limit (like the 2GB filesize
> limit on my machine) and dies.

I think there were a number of bugs in the 0.9.15 RTP Analysis code that
are fixed in the current CVS version; that might be one of them.  There
will probably be an 0.9.16 release soon.