Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] corrupt capture files on freebsd 4.8

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From: "jim feldman" <jmf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:52:05 -0600

I can't seem to save my capture files in libpcap format. It always complains they're corrupt. If I try and load the saved file, I get this from the command line. Message: pcap: File has 103809088-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535

FreeBSD 4.8 stable (displayed back to a RH 7.3 box if that makes a difference) ethereal was built from ports tree. Any clues for the clueless?
thanks
jim
# ethereal -v
ethereal 0.9.10, with GTK+ 1.2.10, with GLib 1.2.10, with libpcap 0.7, with libz 1.1.4, with Net-SNMP 5.0.8
ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/ethereal
/usr/X11R6/bin/ethereal:
      docsis.so (0x284d8000)
      cosnaming.so (0x284f2000)
      coseventcomm.so (0x284f6000)
      gryphon.so (0x284f9000)
      megaco.so (0x28503000)
      mgcp.so (0x28506000)
      pcli.so (0x2850c000)
      libnetsnmp.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so.5 (0x2850f000)
      libkvm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libkvm.so.2 (0x28583000)
      libdevstat.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdevstat.so.2 (0x28589000)
      libcrypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3 (0x2858e000)
      libpcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpcap.so.2 (0x28685000)
      libgtk12.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk12.so.2 (0x286a1000)
      libgdk12.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libgdk12.so.2 (0x287c9000)
      libgmodule12.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule12.so.3 (0x287fb000)
      libglib12.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libglib12.so.3 (0x287fe000)
      libintl.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.2 (0x28820000)
      libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x28827000)
      libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x28835000)
      libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x2890f000)
      libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x2892a000)
      libintl.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1 (0x289c3000)
      libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x289c8000)
libXThrStub.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXThrStub.so.6 (0x28aa0000)