Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal error: pcap: File has 1692792122-byte packet, bigg

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:59:38 -0800
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:46:43PM -0500, Bilig Oyun wrote:
> I got the following error when I open a file captured by tethereal:
> 
> pcap: File has 1692792122-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535

Did you transfer that file from another machine?

If so, did you do so using FTP?

If so, are the two machines running different types of operating system,
such as Windows and some flavor of UN*X?

If so, did you do the transfer in binary mode?

If not, the file got corrupted (and the only way to get an uncorrupted
version is to transfer the file in binary - you can't fix a file that's
been corrupted by being transferred in ASCII mode).

Other forms of file transfer might have the same problem.