Here's an early report of a bug in 0.7.0. It probably has everything
to do with the display filter code. I won't be able to look at it until
late this evening or tomorrow, but in case anyone is interested, here's
the report.
--gilbert
----- Forwarded message from Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx> -----
From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:18:43 -0500
To: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.7.0 released
Howdy Gilbert!
I just tried 0.7.0, and it crashed ;(
I loaded up a 6.6M file, and everthing worked fine, until I chose a source
port and "match selected". My memory usage shot through the roof, nearly
filling up swap before I caught it. I fired up 0.6.3 as a sanity check,
and it worked fine (this is what I was using previously to check out the
trace).
I'm on Linux 2.2.10, on a dual PII-450 with 256M RAM. Let me know if there
is something more you need to know, or if there is a better way to report
something like this.
* Gilbert Ramirez (gram@xxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> I released 0.7.0 tonight. It should appear on freshmeat
> and ethereal-announce soon.
>
> Here's a list of the projects that I could remember
> that we're thinking about:
>
>
> Defragging fragmented packets and sending them
> through the dissectors again (logical view of transmissions,
> instead of "physical" packets)
>
> Color support
>
> Loadable dissector modules
>
> Protocol description language
>
> Supporting the new win32 libpcap
>
> Printing of selected packets
>
> GUI filter creator
>
> Remove race-condition in creation of temporary pcap capture.
>
> Wiretap to support capturing
>
> And of course, new protocol dissectors are always welcome!
>
>
> In the immediate future, I'm going to work on enhancing
> the display filter and proto_tree code, and try to move all
> the GTK code to a subdirectory, to make the top-level
> source GUI-independent. I'd really like to see a curses
> ethereal in the far-off future, and this is the first step.
>
> --gilbert
>
>
--
Jerry Talkington
NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.
"I'll be your huckleberry."
- Larry "Sparc-ee" Armstrong
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