Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark decode complaining about Malfromed packet - (bogus, payload length .

["Ramji Vaithianathan (rvaithia)" <rvaithia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jaap and Sake for the responses on this to upgrade the version.  I was using version 1.20 and upgrading to a later version such as  (Version 1.3.0-SVN-28821) made the problem go away.

 

Ramji

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From: Ramji Vaithianathan (rvaithia)
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:20 PM
To: 'wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Wireshark decode complaining about Malfromed packet - (bogus, payload length ...)

Hi,

 

I was trying to capturing DNS packets using Wireshark, and it gave errors about bogus payload length.

 

For example in the Frame 23 in the dump:

 

  IP length is 324 bytes

  UDP length is 304 bytes

 

However there is a complaint about bogus payload length 49 : Bad length value 304 > IP payload length

 

Any idea why this is coming eventhough the entire packet was captured.  The bytes beyond 49 bytes in the payload are treated as Ethernet trailer packets.

 

Thanks,

Ramji