Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tcpdump with snaplen set to 128

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From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:13:55 -0500
On Oct 15, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

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> On Oct 15, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Frame Length and Capture Length both say 128 bytes.
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> As I suspected.
> 
>> Back on my original question: would you say that sense the Frame Length is bogus, wireshark is doing as well as expected?
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> Yes.

Thanks.  For future googlers:

on AIX, iptrace with the -B -S <snaplen> will produce this.  Adding -T to cause iptrace to create a tcpdump format file works around the issue.

I'm wondering if maybe the iptrace format doesn't have both fields.

Thank you,
Perry Smith