Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Segmentation Fault and capturing on promiscuous interface i

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From: "neelay Thaker" <neelay1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:07:03 -0700
> Also, I have another version of tethereal that doesn't give a
> Segmentation fault, but the problem is that it doesn't capture on
> an interface that's already in promiscuous mode.

What happens when you try to capture on an interface that's already
in promiscuous mode?
---> When I try to capture packets on an interface that's already in promiscuous mode, tethereal just prints -
** WARNING **: radius: Could not find the radius directory
Capturing on eth1
A tcpdump on the same interface confirms that there is traffic on eth1, but tethereal doesn't see it.

Are you doing this on HP-UX?
---> I'm using ethereal-0.10.12 on Red Hat Linux 7.3 on x86 platform.

Thanks,
Neelay.

On 6/19/06, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:18 PM, neelay Thaker wrote:

> I compiled and built ethereal. When I execute tethereal, I get the
> error- "Segmentation fault". What's the cause of this error?

Either a dereference of pointer that doesn't point to a valid
address, or possibly an attempt to store through a pointer that
points to a valid address in a read-only region of the address space.

There does not exist a higher-level description of the cause of a
"segmentation fault".  A lot of different problems, which have only
the item in the previous paragraph in common, can cause a
segmentation fault.  I suggest you try to use a debugger to determine
what code is getting the segmentation fault.

> Also, I have another version of tethereal that doesn't give a
> Segmentation fault, but the problem is that it doesn't capture on
> an interface that's already in promiscuous mode.

What happens when you try to capture on an interface that's already
in promiscuous mode?

Are you doing this on HP-UX?

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