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

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From: Per Steinar Iversen <PerSteinar.Iversen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:35:04 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Per Steinar Iversen wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:12:55AM +0200, Per Steinar Iversen wrote:
> > > It tried this now and the latest ethereal does not crash - it just
> > > complains about "Unsupported coded" and refuses to save the stream in au
> > > format.
> > 
> > Either the stream isn't in a format that the RTP analysis code can
> > handle (u-law or A-law), or there's a bug somewhere in the code.
> > 
> > Lars?
> 
> When I try today I get a different error: "Can't save in a file: File I/O problem!"
> 
> -psi

The problem seems to be that the SPAN on the Cisco switch is VLAN based
and that most packet are seen twice. When sniffing from a hub there is no
problem, so most likely the analysis code does not handle duplicates well.

-psi