Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem-can't open file because longer than 65535

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:11:13 +0100
Débora Pastor Antolín wrote:


Hi you all,
I've a problem with opening a file (Wlan-traces) with _tethereal_, the command version of ethereal. It says, one of the packets is longer than 65535 Bytes (that's the MTU of Ethernet)-maybe you can help me, I need to obtain some statistics. Please, help me!
Sounds to me that the capture file is corrupt somehow. 65535 is the largest expected packet size - I don't know any of todays networks that uses larger packets than that. 

Probably the file was corrupted on transport (FTP not using binary mode?)

Regards, ULFL