Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Pssible bug?

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: Paul Aitken <paitken@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:47:19 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > When I receive an IPv6 ICMP message, as much of the original
> > "offending" packet as possible is returned - and you seem to be
> > displaying that returned packet in the packet list window rather
> > than the newly received ICMP message,
> 
> Fixed in 0.8.18.

Not quite - you've got the protocol and info fields right, but the source and
destination fields are still the wrong way around, presumably because you're
still taking them from the returned packet (a copy of the original) rather than
the new ICMP packet.

Also someone moved the binary to .libs/lt-ethereal which was a sneaky thing to
do because I have to setuid the binary. From the README:

> In order to capture packets from the network, you need to be running as
> root

"ethereal" is now just a shell script that I can't setuid :-(

Excellent program though.
-- 
Paul Aitken
IPv6 Development, Cisco Systems Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland. EH6 6LX