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List:       ethereal-users
Subject:    Re: [Ethereal-users] Bug in snmp decode?
From:       Stijn Jonker <sjcjonker () sjc ! nl>
Date:       2001-12-24 7:05:14
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:41:48AM +0100, Stijn Jonker wrote:
> > but whenever i tried to read it with ethereal or tethereal it dumps core.
> 
> Are you running Ethereal on Red Hat 7.2?

Well not really, 

I'm running what once was redhat 7.0, changed a lot.

For instance I upgraded ucd-snmp to 4.2.1-7 by compiling the source rpm 
from redhat Rawhide and such, but I'll try the CVS sources. 

Thanks a lot. And I'll let you know if the CVS gives me troubles also.


> 
> If so, you may have a version of the UCD SNMP library that is both
> source-incompatible and binary-incompatible with the standard UCD SNMP
> (or, as it's now called NET-SNMP) library, and the binary
> incompatibility causes programs that call some routines in that library
> to dump core.  Ethereal is one of those programs.
> 
> The only fix for that problem, at present, is either to
> 
> 	1) configure the 0.8.20 source not to use the SNMP library to
> 	   read MIB files, by using the "--disable-snmp" flag (it'll
> 	   still dissect SNMP packets, but not in as much detail)
> 
> or
> 
> 	2) get the current CVS version of Ethereal and build that (which
> 	   requires that you have some additional tools installed, e.g.
> 	   automake, Perl, and Python).
> 
> The next release of Ethereal should also let you build it from source to
> work around that particular problem.
> 

-- 
Met Vriendelijke groet/Yours Sincerely
Stijn Jonker <SJCJonker@sjc.nl>

Outlook Express is actually an incredibly effective virus distribution system which \
only pretends to be an email program. [by Eric Lee]


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