On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:45:35AM -0500, Bruce Murphy wrote:
> When capturing packets while I am loading the Login screen for my broadband
> router, I've noticed packets with the following error message under the
> INFO section:
>
> ERROR: Problem at version: Wrong type for that item
>
> The protocol is listed as KRB5
>
> These packets appear contain the contents to display the webpage.
So did your broadband router vendor "cleverly" choose port 88 - the port
number for Kerberos version 5 - as the port number for the login screen
(I assume you're referring to a Web-based user interface for the router
here)?
If so, then Ethereal will, by default, that traffic as Kerberos version
5 traffic; you'd have to disable the Kerberos protocol from the
"Protocols" menu item under the "Edit" menu.
The same would happen if your machine were using that port number on its
connection to the router, but that is, I suspect, far less likely.
> I'm not
> experiencing problems accessing the router however each packet has the
> above-mentioned error message. Is something wrong with my router,
Possibly - its code might've been written by somebody who thought using
port 88, rather than port 80 or 8080, for HTTP was a Clever Idea.