Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Q - reading prismdump files from ethereal - all beacons

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:04:31 -0800
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:02:37PM -0300, Dario Ciccarone wrote:
>     after capturing some packets using prismdump & opening the file on
> ethereal, each & evert beacon, and most of the management frames, show up as
> "malformed Packet: IEEE 802.11". Is this a known bug in ethereal

Several people have reported this...

> or is
> prismdump forgetting to write some of the packet contents? has anyone
> experienced anything similar? capture files available upon request !

...but you're the first one who's offered capture files.  Please send me
a capture file, so I can try to debug this; as I've never seen any
capture with that problem, I don't know what the cause would be.