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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] about the tethereal error in ethereal-0.10.6

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:59:49 -0700
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:28:14PM +0800, Li Haijiang wrote:
> When I run the command "tethereal -T psml -r 0809 >0809.xml",It got the error
> information like this. Is it bug of ethereal? or what is the reason?

The reason is that the ICQ dissector prints a message to the standard
error if it dissects a packet that doesn't have an ICQ version number it
knows about.  This can happen if non-ICQ UDP traffic to or from port
4000 is in a capture.