Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12083] hang when opening exported netscaler packet capture

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:12:07 +0000

Comment # 2 on bug 12083 from 
(In reply to Anil from comment #0)
> Wireshark and tshark hangs when a cap file that is exported using
> tshark/wireshark is opened in tshark/wireshark.
> 
> This is because capture file created by tshark/wireshark will not have size
> that is a multiple of 16KB. While the dissector expects the file to be a
> multiple of 16kB. 
> 
> This assumption is due to the fact that Netscaler always creates capture
> file with sizes that are multiple of 16kB.

Should the libwiretap code that *writes* Netscaler files be changed to pad them
to a multiple of 16K as well, in case *other* software that reads them expects
them to be a multiple of 16K bytes?

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