Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] WCP decode not working?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
> I'm being a bit lazy but I noticed that Wellfleet Compression Protocol
> purports to be support in 0.8.17.

It is...

...but not over PPP.  The comment at the beginning of "packet-wcp.c"
says:

 * ToDo:  

	...

 *      Handle Wellfleet compression over PPP links.
 *              - This will require changing the sub-dissector call
 *                routine to determine if layer 2 is frame relay or
 *                or PPP and different sub-dissector routines for each.
 *