Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug 68

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:05:20 -0500
Peter Johansson wrote:

> My patch changes the decoding of the Destination address to conform with
> the spec found at
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/trsrb/frames.htm#xtocid75
> and adds decoding of user field values 4-7 while updating the
> description of user field values 0-3 according to IEEE 802.1D-2004,
> annex G.

Checked in.

> Unfortunately I am unable to send the patch as a zipped attachment since
> the mail-server handling messages to ethereal-dev reports:
> 550 Error: Attachment type not allowed. File "packet-isl-patch.zip" has
> the unacceptable extension "zip"

Unfortunately, we get a _lot_ of zipped virus/malware attachments.  3160
since February 20, according to the logs.

To get around the restriction, you can use another compression technique
(such as gzip), or rename the extension (e.g. to ".zip_").