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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:09:21 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:56:42AM -0400, wsladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Below is a screenshot that I get when I display a capture.  I am trying to
>> locate an issue during the timeframe of this capture and the capture
>> displays fine, however, I get this every time I open it.  This may be the
>> smoking gun I have been looking for but I don't know how to interpret it.
>> Can someone please explain why this would be happening?
>
>It could be happending because you are getting traffic to or from TCP
>port 1812 that's not Diameter protocol traffic; Ethereal's Diameter
>dissector registers for TCP port 1812, so TCP traffic to port 1812 is
>dissected by that dissector.  That dissector reports some errors in the
>packets to the console window; if the traffic isn't Diameter traffic at
>all, then the dissector will find lots of stuff it considers to be
>errors.
>


You can change the TCP port number from Edit/Preferences.../Protocols/Diameter.

You could set the port number to 0 and then "Save" and "OK" if you are not interesting in Diameter protocol (www.diameter.org).

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