Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 10.8 (win and linux) crashing - x11

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:31:28 -0800
Andrew Hood wrote:

tethereal 0.10.8 (SVN 20050103222645)
Compiled with GLib 2.4.6, with libpcap 0.8.3, with libz 1.1.4, with libpcre 4.4, with Net-SNMP 5.1, with ADNS.
Running with libpcap version 0.8.3 on Linux 2.4.21.

has no problems with it on my box:

: tethereal  -r ~/mail/crashing-2005-01-07.cap
1 0.000000 193.2.72.62 -> 213.157.237.128 TCP [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]

That's because you have TCP reassembly, and TCP reassembly of X11, enabled, so the packet is just considered part of an X11 request; it doesn't have all of the request, so it doesn't dissect it.