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
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