On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Exported libpcap + tcpdump from CVS about 12 hours ago (20001231).
>
> After creating an RPM of it and running on RHL62 system, I noticed it
> very often crashes after printing a couple of lines:
>
> ---
> $ ./tcpdump
> tcpdump: listening on eth0
> 01:28:17.100229 xxx.fi.45811 > netcore.fi.ssh: . ack 784755934 win 17240 (DF)
> 01:28:17.100359 netcore.fi.ssh > xxx.fi.45811: P 1:65(64) ack 0 win 32120 (DF)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> ---

Other notes:

With -n, I have never seen this (so, it seems clear handling lookups is a
problem).

'tcpdump -i any' about always causes the core dump, but it also happens
with plain 'tcpdump', though perhaps less frequently.

-- 
Pekka Savola                  "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                    not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.   -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

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