Re: malformed packet (exception occurred)

[jack craig <jcraig () extraview com>]

Hi Jaap,

Thx for your reply.

On 02/11/2010 02:12 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Welcome to the club.
>
> First of all it's called Wireshark, so please no camelcase.

ok.

> It might be that your packet capture contains unexpected contents, as 
> far as the dissector is concerned. Wireshark is built to contain such 
> errors as good as possible.
>
> First of all make sure you've got the latest stable release (1.2.6 
> now) and see how far the dissection goes.

i grabbed 1.3.2 so i am on my own?! ;-)

> Then verify the packet content adheres the protocol specification. 
> Furthermore the dissector may be lacking, which you may see when 
> inspecting the code you can view/download from the Wireshark website.
>
> Finally you can send a small capture to the list for others to have a 
> look at.

this sounds like a good exercise to try.

Back in a bit, thx, jackc...

> Thanks,
> Jaap
>
>
> Send from my iPhone
>
> On 11 feb 2010, at 19:40, jack craig <jcraig () extraview com 
> <mailto:jcraig () extraview com>> wrote:
>
> > Hi WireShark Users,
> >
> > I am just starting to use wireshark for local network analysis.
> >
> > i am seeing errors, malformed mysql malformed packet (exception 
> > occurred).
> >
> > does this mean the exception occurred in the mysql packet dissector ?
> >
> > how might i drill down to get to the bottom of this error?
> >
> > tia, jackc...
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