Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] File has 392010-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:04:20 -0700
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:33:39AM +0200, Cristina Rico Rivas wrote:
> I cannot open some capture files, when ethereal tries to open them, it
> shows several frames (12 packets) and I receive this error:

Where did the capture files come from?

Were they copied between a UN*X machine and a Windows machine?

If so, were they copied in a way (such as FTPing) that might cause text
files to be translated between UN*X and Windows format?  If a non-text
file - such as a libpcap file (Ethereal uses libpcap format) - is copied
in that fashion, it can be corrupted.