Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:19:43 -0500 From: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: Jamie Heckford <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING: Short packet. Try increasing the snap length Message-ID: <20020529151943.B32801@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <002901c20729$7240fb30$4464a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD>; from jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:56:51PM %2B0100 References: <002901c20729$7240fb30$4464a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD>
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:56:51PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Hi,! > > Im running samba and these messages appear when examining traffic with > tcpdump: > > > >>> NBT UDP PACKET(138) Res=0x110A ID=0x6AD0 IP=194 (0xc2).207 (0xcf).93 > (0x5d).5 (0x5) Port=138 (0x8a) Length=213 (0xd5) Res2=0x0 > SourceName=TMS1 NameType=0x00 (Workstation) > DestName= > WARNING: Short packet. Try increasing the snap length > <---------------------- > > Is this something to be worried about and is it a FreeBSD or SAMBA problem? No, and no. It's not something to be worried about. It's not a FreeBSD or SAMBA problem, either. It's tcpdump complaining about snaplen (-s <number>) being shorter than at least one packet it encountered in the stream. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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