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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/ | ||||||||||
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