Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] PPP decode problem (fwd)

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:30:56 +1000
At 08:56 AM 11/27/99 -0600, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I'm forwarding this to the list (with Ton's permission) since I'm not
>familiar the Sniffer file format.
>
>From looking at the data display, each packet in the capture appears to be
>a valid PPP/LCP frame.
>
>P.s. an additional feature could be to set a manual offset where Ethereal 
>needs to start with decoding in a frame in order to skip some parts...

Hmmm, I have been thinking about a Protocol Analysis Workbench which would
allow you to point and click and drag and say, try and decode from here to
here as an IP frame, etc ...



Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, Master Linux Administrator :-),
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