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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

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