Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:34:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:34:07 -0500 Received: from www.wen-online.de ([212.223.88.39]:4100 "EHLO wen-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:34:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:46:27 +0100 (CET) From: Mike Galbraith To: Urban Widmark cc: Andreas Dilger , John Jasen , Denis Vlasenko , linux-kernel Subject: Re: reading your email via tcpdump In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Urban Widmark wrote: > I'm guessing that Mike ran tcpdump with no -s parameter. The tcpdump Correct. > Like you say, if the tcpdump was running while the email was received on > Mike's box it is possible that it had that data in some buffer. When it > later got this message (in another buffer) and tried to decode it, it > decoded the length the message said it had and simply spewed out random > bytes from memory. Hmm. There were other 'packets' containing binary data and ascii which I'm pretty sure was not part of any network traffic. I'll repeat this, and post a follow-up if I see anything which is definitely not received data. For now, I'll assume that it's a harmless tcpdump booboo. Thanks, -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/