Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal bug on IP fragment offset

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:43:36 -0400
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:34:19PM +0200, Dietmar Petras wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> in my current version (0.8.8 ?) ethereal reports the IP fragment offset as
> it stands in the IP header. But the real offset is 8-times that value! I
> would very much prefer that ethereal reports me the correct offset, as it
> does with the IP header length (e.g. 5 in the header field, but the length
> is 5*4=20)

You have an old version. That bug was fixed in 0.8.9:

Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.9:
...
* Fix display of IP fragment (Scott Howard)
...

BTW, the latest version of Ethereal is 0.8.11, with a new version
coming out soon, maybe next week. 

--gilbert