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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] pcap: File has 3379042344-byte packet, bigger than maximum

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:56:18 -0700
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:56:57PM +0200, Ruud Huynen wrote:
> I use ethereal 0.9.3.1 and winpcap 2.3 on Windows NT Version 4.0
> (Build 1381: Service Pack 6). 
> I several times saw a message like:
> 
> pcap: File has 3379042344-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535

Does this happen when you're capturing packets with Ethereal, or does it
happen when you try to read a capture from from another machine?