Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem-can't open file because longer than 65535

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

D�bora Pastor Antol�n wrote:

> Hi you all,
>  
> I've a problem with opening a file (Wlan-traces) with _tethereal_, the 
> command version of ethereal. It says, one of the packets is longer 
> than 65535 Bytes (that's the MTU of Ethernet)-maybe you can help me, I 
> need to obtain some statistics. Please, help me!
>  

Sounds to me that the capture file is corrupt somehow. 65535 is the 
largest expected packet size - I don't know any of todays networks that 
uses larger packets than that.

Probably the file was corrupted on transport (FTP not using binary mode?)

Regards, ULFL