Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Memory leaks in Ethereal

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:11:43 +0100
Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 16.02.06 12:58:43:
> 
> With this configuration I was able to capture 7,500,000 packets. This means
> probably there are memory leaks in Ethereal.
> 

These are no memory leaks!

Ethereal needs to keep information of the previous packets in order to dissect the next packets correctly.

See the mentioned Wiki page again, I've added a section why it's not a memory leak.

Regards, ULFL
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