Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ignore WEP flag crashes windows 0.9.5...

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:36:23 -0700
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:00:57AM -0400, Vincas Ciziunas wrote:
> I don't have access to a windows box at the moment, but when I did, I
> noticed that the IEEE802.11 dissector preferences tab Ignore WEP flag
> option being selected and applied crashes windows (WIN2k at least).  If
> someone would care to verify this on their system, I'd much appreciate it.

I can verify that neither Ethereal nor W2K crashed on my W2K system when
I enabled and applied that option, with an 802.11 capture loaded.

I.e., it's probably not that the option being selected and applied
causes either Windows or Ethereal to crash.

It could be that with *certain captures*, Ethereal crashes, due to a
dissector bug, if you turn "Ignore WEP flag" on.  If you have a capture
that can reliably reproduce this, we can try to reproduce it and find
the bug.

It could also be that something mysterious Ethereal does causes Windows
to crash, due to a Windows bug.  If that's the case, the problem is
probably best reported to Microsoft....