Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capturefile appears to be damaged or corrupt. (pcap: Fileshas 109736-byte

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's my understanding that dumpcap uses its own custom code to create PCAP 
files. The only case that might cause a corrupted capture file is that when 
a packet is received with pcap_next_ex (or whatever other function is used 
by dumpcap), pcap_pkthdr::len < pcap_pkthdr::caplen, and even in this case, 
I'm not sure if this would cause a corrupted file.

Have a nice day
GV

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From: "Sake Blok" <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:44 AM
To: "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capturefile	appears	to	be	damaged	orcorrupt.(pcap: Fileshas	109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 65535)

> Hi Joseph,
>
> If you look at the last packet of the tracefile that can be read by 
> Wireshark (frame 1407), you can see that the capture length is set to 98 
> bytes, while there were 102 bytes on the wire. However, you were not using 
> a snap length and the tracefile actually contains all 102 bytes. This 
> looks like a bug in WinPcap. Which version of WinPcap are you using? I'm 
> not sure but I believe there were some issues with earlier 64 bit versions 
> of WinPcap.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Sake
>
> On 17 mei 2010, at 16:25, Joseph Laibach wrote:
>
> > Here is one of the files that loads and tells me the file is corrupt.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph 
> > Laibach
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 3:32 PM
> > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capture file appears to be damaged or 
> > corrupt. (pcap: Files has 109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 
> > 65535)
> >
> > So I made the changes and once the network traffic starts picking up I 
> > get corrupted files again. Traffic is about 60MBit/sec.
> >
> > Here is the command I'm running now:
> >
> > C:\"Program Files"\Wireshark\dumpcap.exe -i 
> > \Device\NPF_{21741AFC-E45E-46A6-9740-9E233E4FF91D} -w d:\SFTI_capture -b 
> > files:20000 -b filesize:8192 -B 256
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph 
> > Laibach
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:47 AM
> > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capture file appears to be damaged or 
> > corrupt. (pcap: Files has 109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 
> > 65535)
> >
> > Thanks for catching it. I should be using the -b filesize:8192 instead. 
> > I'll make the changes and see what happens.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sake Blok
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:36 AM
> > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capture file appears to be damaged or 
> > corrupt. (pcap: Files has 109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 
> > 65535)
> >
> > Hmmm... reading back all the mails I see that you use:
> >
> > dumpcap ... -b files:10000 -a filesize:8192 ...
> >
> > Why are you mixing -b and -a options?  "-a" options are for automatic 
> > finishing the capturing and "-b" options are for creating a ringbuffer. 
> > Which of the two were you planning to use?
> >
> > If sticking to one of these two options does not solve the issue, are you 
> > able to share a file that is giving the error?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sake
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14 mei 2010, at 17:11, Joseph Laibach wrote:
> >
> > > I open the file on the host that is was captured on, or I copy it via a 
> > > Windows file share. Either way it gives me the same error. I'm capturing 
> > > stock Market multicast data, if that matters. The traffic is very bursty 
> > > and the data rate is around 200mb/sec. I switched from a Broadcom NIC to 
> > > Intel NIC to see if that would help but no luck on that change either.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sake Blok
> > > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 10:49 AM
> > > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capture file appears to be damaged or 
> > > corrupt. (pcap: Files has 109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 
> > > 65535)
> > >
> > > Did you open the file on the host on which it was captured? Or did you 
> > > transfer the file from the capturing host to the host on which you try 
> > > to read it? The error message that you get usually appears after the 
> > > file has been transferred to another host with FTP in ASCII mode instead 
> > > of BINARY mode.
> > >
> > > (FYI dumpcap writes libpcap based files which can not contain packets 
> > > larger than 65535 bytes, so the file is most probably corrupted somehow)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Sake
> > >
> > > On 14 mei 2010, at 16:36, Joseph Laibach wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a way to remove the 65535 maximum from the reading of a 
> > > > capture?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph 
> > > > Laibach
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:36 AM
> > > > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > > > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capture file appears to be damaged 
> > > > or corrupt. (pcap: Files has 109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 
> > > > 65535)
> > > >
> > > > I'm running version 1.2.7 64bit.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > > [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jaap Keuter
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:29 AM
> > > > To: Community support list for Wireshark
> > > > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] The capture file appears to be damaged 
> > > > or corrupt. (pcap: Files has 109736-byte packet, bigger than maximum of 
> > > > 65535)
> > > >
> > > > But what release of Wireshark are you using?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jaap
> > > >
> > > > Send from my iPhone
> > > >
> > > > On 11 mei 2010, at 16:37, Joseph Laibach <jlaibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I am having an issue with some of the capture files. Some captures
> > > > > files spit back an error that the capture file appears to be damaged
> > > > > or corrupt. The capture is running on a Windows 2003 Sever R2 64bit,
> > > > > with 2 gigs of memory and a Inetl Xeon 2.33ghz processor.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I am capturing with dumpcap. The syntax I am using is as follows: C:
> > > > > \"Program Files"\Wireshark\dumpcap.exe -i \Device\NPF_
> > > > > {ECC9D35A-826A-4A4F-B634-656EAD4EC7C9} -w d:\SFTI_capture -b files:
> > > > > 10000 -a filesize:8192 -B 128 -s 10000000
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I added the -s 10000000 to try and fix the large byte packet issue b
> > > > > ut that hasn't worked.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to eliminated the corruption of
> > > > > capture files?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Joe Laibach
> > > > >
> > > > >
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