Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal byte order bug

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From: Allen Mcintosh <mcintosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:10:59 -0500
Ethereal 0.7.7 (just downloaded it), running on RedHat Linux 6.1 (386), with
following relevant RPM's (straight off the CD):

gtk+-devel-1.2.5-2
gtk+10-1.0.6-6
gtk+-1.2.5-2
libpcap-0.4-16

Compiled using a vanilla (no args) invocation of configure.

Invoke as just plain old "ethereal", try to open a file (written on this
machine by tcpdump, and intelligible to ethereal-0.5.1), get this message:

Message: pcap: File has 942359487-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535

I'd say this was a byte order problem for sure, except that 942359487 isn't
anything with low-order zeros in base 16.