Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] "cut short in the middle of a packet" issue

From: Prashanth <pvenkatg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:06:58 -0700 (PDT)
I did file a report with netapp, but i still wanted to find out about ways of reading everything else except for the broken packet. Using editcap and creating a new file worked just like you mentioned. I am able to get the stats now.

Thanks very much,

venkat

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
wrote:

> Yes, i stop the trace on the filer before reading the file.

Then there's a bug on the filer; you should report it to NetApp. It
might not be writing out the last bufferful of packet data (which means
there might be some packets that are *completely* missing from the file).

> If wireshark
> ignores the packet then why doesn't it print the ip_hosts stats? Is
> that the expected behavior? I normally use the -q because i am more
> interested in looking at the stats by IP address. When wireshark finds
> that a packet ( the last one) is cut short, it doesnt print the stats.
> Is there a way to have it continue to print stats.

You can throw away the incomplete packet at the end - have editcap read
the file and write it to another file; it'll print an error, but it'll
just copy the complete packets to the output file.

Then read the output file with tshark.
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