Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FW: Ethereal and "Limiting Packet to X bytes"

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:03:19 -0600
Tell him to do his own homework?  :)

Kelly Sides wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: helsten@xxxxxxx [mailto:helsten@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Ethereal and "Limiting Packet to X bytes"
> 
> To Whom It May Concern,
> 
> I am going to a class at Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus
> called 
> Computer Networking and Internet Protocols in Action.  We are using
> Ethereal 
> for hands on experience and we are wondering why when you try to capture
> and 
> you want to limit Packets to X bytes, it won't go below 68 bytes.  Why
> is that 
> and can it be changed to go lower?  What would happen if you could set
> it below 
> say 50 bytes?  We are just trying to figure it out because the book says
> we 
> should try to set it lower but it is not happening.  Thank you for your
> time.
> 
> Wesley T. Helsten
> helsten@xxxxxxx
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