Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal 0.8.3 ospf problems

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:29:52 -0800 (PST)
> Attached is a capture file in libpcap format.  In this file
> the ospf packets show up with "Unknown type" in the 802.3 "type"
> field.  Some DD packets show up as "logical link control".

Odd.  They don't do so on the Solaris 2.5.1/SPARC build of Ethereal
0.8.3 installed here.

*Maybe* there's a byte-order problem of some sort - I'll try it on the
Ethereal I have at home, but I think the chances of that are pretty
slim; I suspect it's more likely to be a build or compiler problem of
some sort on your machine.

You might want to spend some time in the debugger, because, as per the
above, it's not as if some change was introduced between 0.8.0 and 0.8.3
that completely broke OSPF dissection (note that if they show up with an
unknown 802.x type, that's especially odd - that's not an issue with
recognizing OSPF packets, it's an issue with recognizing *IP* packets).