Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] FW: Ethereal and "Limiting Packet to X bytes"

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From: "Kelly Sides" <ksides@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:56:36 -0600
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From: helsten@xxxxxxx [mailto:helsten@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:44 PM
To: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Ethereal and "Limiting Packet to X bytes"

To Whom It May Concern,

I am going to a class at Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus
called 
Computer Networking and Internet Protocols in Action.  We are using
Ethereal 
for hands on experience and we are wondering why when you try to capture
and 
you want to limit Packets to X bytes, it won't go below 68 bytes.  Why
is that 
and can it be changed to go lower?  What would happen if you could set
it below 
say 50 bytes?  We are just trying to figure it out because the book says
we 
should try to set it lower but it is not happening.  Thank you for your
time.

Wesley T. Helsten
helsten@xxxxxxx