Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] kde locks up....with radius..

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:12:26 -0600
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:03:56PM -0600, Arni Raghu wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I have a 8 line dump file captured from tcpdump...I open this using
> ethereal..The instant I click on the line that contains teh radius packet 
> my
> whole screen freezes...I have ctrl-alt-bckspsc o recover....why is that???

If you send that trace file to ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx, we'll be glad
to fix ethereal. There is apparently a bug in ethereal that's creating
and infinite loop in the code when that packet is selected.
 
> I can understand that ethereal should just fail with an error saying 
> unknown
> packet format etc...than just hang!!
> 
> On a related note is there a radius moduke for ethereal..I would not mind
> contributing it if it is not there...any tips for that would be
> appreciated..

Yes, we have a radius decoder.

> Thx,
> Arni

--gilbert