Allan Herriman wrote: > Hi, > > Ethereal crashes with the message: > "file proto.c: line 1651: should not be reached" when I try browse > through the packets in the attached file _pkt0.bin in ethereal version > 0.9.9 (C) running on Windows 2000 sp2. > > _pkt0.bin was created by text2pcap, and represents "line noise" rather > than any particular protocol. > > I don't have the resources to look into this myself, but I thought I had > better report it to find out if anyone else can recreate the problem. >
The problem is in the mdshdr dissector of Ethereal version 0.9.9. You shouldn't get a crash after upgrading to Ethereal 0.9.11. I have tried your capture. You can also inactivate "mdshdr" protocol in 0.9.9 in Edit/Protocols... (you'll find it almost in the bottom of the list of protcols) each time you start Ethereal. The packets in your capture isn't really MDS Header /Fiber Channel packets but Ethereal will try to dissct them as that due to that the ethertype is 0.
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