Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] patches

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:21:15 -0700
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:17:53AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Also contains patches to add TCP desegmentation support for packet-tcp.c
> > and options to desegment NBSS and RPC packets.
> 
> Checked in, with additional changes to handle the case where a frame
> contains messages that don't run past the end followed by one that does
> and where a reassembled chunk has, at the end, a message that runs past
> the end of that chunk (because the reassembly was for an earlier
> message).

Note, BTW, that it *does* work in Tethereal; you don't get to see the
list of all segments in the output for frames other than the one
containing the last segment, but reassembly *is* done and appears to
work.