Please, if you're going to attach capture files, compress them. This 1Mb
file compressed down to 71k with bzip2:
newman[chaos]: chaos$ ls -l desegment_err.cap
-rw------- 1 chaos chaos 1020305 Jul 29 08:56 desegment_err.cap
newman[chaos]: chaos$ bzip2 -9 desegment_err.cap
ls -l desenewman[chaos]: chaos$ ls -l desegment_err.cap.bz2
-rw------- 1 chaos chaos 71298 Jul 29 08:56 desegment_err.cap.bz2
newman[chaos]: chaos$
On Monday, 29 Jul 2002, Miodrag Marinkovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing dissectors for OSI protocols.
> For testing purposes, I am using several files which contain packages
> with TCP, TPKT, COTP and OSI protocols on layers 4-7.
>
> To exclude eventual errors in my code I am starting Ethereal
> without my extension. The desegmenting of TCP and TPKT
> is enabled. But sometimes Ethereal can not display the PDUS properly.
>
> The PDUs are desegmeted, but the beginning of the PDU is missing!
> Because of that TPKT starts decoding on the PDU part which belongs
> to other protocols!
>
> The files and preferences are always same, but Ethereal sometimes
> works OK, sometimes not! I have tried to find a memory access error
> using Purify. But no errors are reported.
>
> In the attachment is one of these files. To reproduce the error just
> read the file without any filter. If the error doesn't occur close the file
> and read it again.
>
> Are where any corrections regarding TCP/TPKT desegmenting
> planned for the next release?
>
> ============================================================================
> Miodrag Marinkovic WORK;VOICE: + 49 89 636 42347
> Senior System Engineer WORK;FAX: + 49 89 636 41692
> Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co PREF;INTERNET: miodrag.marinkovic@mch20
>
> Additional information:
>
> Last Name: Marinkovic
> First Name: Miodrag
> ============================================================================
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