Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal byte order bug

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Guy Harris wrote:

> > Ethereal 0.7.7 (just downloaded it), running on RedHat Linux 6.1 (386),
> 
> Ah, yes, Red Hat 6.1, wherein they picked up an old crufty version of a
> patch "libpcap" that changed the format of a capture file *WITHOUT*
> changing the magic number, causing its "tcpdump" to produce files that
> cannot be read by any version of "tcpdump" other than one linked with
> the crufty version of "libpcap".

Since this has been brought up several times lately, I've added it to the
FAQ list:

    http://ethereal.zing.org/faq.html#q3.3