Re: Output goes weird!

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 11, 2003, at 5:41 AM, csmjmr () bath ac uk wrote:

> I'm in a bit of trouble actually. This software is for my dissertation 
> -- I
> developed on Linux and am trying to port to FreeBSD for testing.
>
> The testing failed miserably :o(
>
> I've done nearly all that you suggested. I've checked the datalink 
> protocol and
> its ethernet. I'm reading the IP total length and TCP data offset 
> fields to
> find out where the payload is.
>
> The reason I don't check the output in the C program is that stdout is
> eventually redirected to a Java program that filters out the text 
> characters.
>
> The program worked fine under Linux, but in FreeBSD... so many packets 
> are
> being dropped by the kernel so I can't read the complete NNTP 
> conversation.

Wait.

So there's one problem, the non-printable characters.

Is the packet dropping a separate problem?

If so, then:

	1) are you still having the problem with the non-printable characters? 
 If so, we'd probably have to see your code to see what you're doing 
wrong.

        2) what indicates that packets are being dropped?

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