On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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?
Well not really,
I'm running what once was redhat 7.0, changed a lot.
For instance I upgraded ucd-snmp to 4.2.1-7 by compiling the source rpm
from redhat Rawhide and such, but I'll try the CVS sources.
Thanks a lot. And I'll let you know if the CVS gives me troubles also.
>
> 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.
>
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Met Vriendelijke groet/Yours Sincerely
Stijn Jonker <SJCJonker@xxxxxx>
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