Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Dissector for the Session Announcement Protocol (SAP)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:16:56 -0800 (PST)
> Now the worries. Is there a clean way to access the IP header 
> information from the UDP dissector? Dissecting a packet as a SAP 
> packet is only meaningful if the packet was sent to a multicast IP 
> address.

Is there some problem with Ethereal dissecting packets to port 9875 as
SAP packets if they're not sent to the appropriate multicast address? 
E.g., should unicast packets to 9875, or multicast packets not sent to
the appropriate multicast addresses, be dissected as some other type of
packet?