Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] spanning multiple packets

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:28:32 +0900
Hi,

At 07:41 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Bakken, Andy wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been perusing the archives and I haven't found an answer to this
>question:  
>
>How do I program my dissector to handle continuation packets?  I want it to
>continue parsing the stream. 

Well, you will probably want to maintain a conversation during the first
pass, and keep per-packet stuff as well.

Have a look at several dissectors, including packet-bxxp.c for more details.

There will be difficulties, however ...

>Thanks in advance,
>
>Andrew Bakken
>#include "std/disclaimer.h" 
>
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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