Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal crash: RTP

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From: Per Steinar Iversen <PerSteinar.Iversen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:50:19 +0200 (CEST)
I am trying to use ethereal 0.9.15 to capture VoIP data, a RedHat 9 
machine is connected to a spanned port on a Cisco 6509. This works well 
though each packet seems to be seen twice. Ethereal identifies the traffic 
as ITU-T G.711 PCMA, that is correct. However if one uses 
"Tools/Statistics/RTP analysis" then ethereal hangs for a while before 
crashing, it leaves behind a file in /tmp that is always 2147483647 bytes 
large, the name is typically something like /tmp/ethereal_rtp_fwdXXXXNytvOO

Is this a known problem or limitation of ethereal?

-psi