Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Token ring dissector bug

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From: Paul Ionescu <paul@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:20:42 +0300
Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> But what if I make a packet capture using linux 2.0.x and send it to you, and you happen
> to use Solaris? The weird OS-detection stuff has to be compiled in for all platforms.
> 

Yes, you are right.
One possible solution is to make this heuristic OS check to be user
selectable (a checkbox somewhere)