Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bug in snmp decode?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:47:19 -0800
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:41:48AM +0100, Stijn Jonker wrote:
> but whenever i tried to read it with ethereal or tethereal it dumps core.

Are you running Ethereal on Red Hat 7.2?

If so, you may have a version of the UCD SNMP library that is both
source-incompatible and binary-incompatible with the standard UCD SNMP
(or, as it's now called NET-SNMP) library, and the binary
incompatibility causes programs that call some routines in that library
to dump core.  Ethereal is one of those programs.

The only fix for that problem, at present, is either to

	1) configure the 0.8.20 source not to use the SNMP library to
	   read MIB files, by using the "--disable-snmp" flag (it'll
	   still dissect SNMP packets, but not in as much detail)

or

	2) get the current CVS version of Ethereal and build that (which
	   requires that you have some additional tools installed, e.g.
	   automake, Perl, and Python).

The next release of Ethereal should also let you build it from source to
work around that particular problem.