[Vincas Ciziunas <winkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Guy Harris wrote:

> 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....
> 

Apparently, the problem was lack of lib_pcap.  The dissector attempts to
modify the capture device whether you use it or not.  So, either that
needs to be changed to support capture files, or winpcap should be
optional.  Ideas?
					--v