Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] strange message reordering in message printing

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:37:56PM +0900, itojun@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 	I'm experiencing very strange symptom with ICMPv6 decoding.  maybe
> 	it is a gtk+ issue, but anyway I would like to report it.
> 	on the attached screenshot, you see a line that says:
> 
> >       ...0 0... = Router preference: Meidum
> 
> 	notice the misspelled "Medium".

That was a typo fixed in revision 1.50 of packet-icmpv6.c; Ethereal
0.8.19 had revision 1.48, and 0.8.20 has version 1.53.

> 	the source code (packet-icmpv6.c) spells it correctly as "Medium".
> 	tethereal generates a correctly-spelled line on invocation with -V.

Perhaps the Ethereal you're using was built from older source (e.g, is
0.8.19, or hasn't been recompiled since a CVS update, or something such
as that)?