Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] filters for ethereal?

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From: Mike Hall <mlh@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:20:26 -0600 (CST)
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:

> Since I've already started dreaming, what about packet linking, to
> fully decode segmented packets ?  :)  No, I don't have the faintest
> idea on how to do that, neither on the interface, nor on the
> implementation side.  But it could be useful in some cases.

The tcp reconstruct code I put in ethereal does reconstruct TCP fragmented
packets. It's not IP reconstruction, but the same methods apply. It's
actually not that hard.

--Mike

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