Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Preference setting for ICMP MPLS extensions

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:49:21 -0400
checked in.


I added you back to the AUTHORS file.
I dont think you were removed deliberately it was probably just a
small mistake when adding a new entry.
Thanks for pointing the error out,   i dont think we ever delete
entries from AUTHORS ever.  regardless if there is still any code left
in ehtereal or not from that person.



On 7/22/05, Brice Augustin <bricecotte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I realized that my name (and my colleague's, Maria-Luiza) had
> been  removed from the AUTHORS file, I was so scared that I found some
>  motivation, courage and time to code the little patch I promised :)
> 
> As outlined earlier, our previous patch to decode the ICMP extensions 
> for MPLS couldn't handle the collisions between the IETF draft and RFC
>  1812.
> 
> This new patch allows the user to indicate how to decode ICMP payloads
>  that contain an original packet with more than 128 bytes.
> 
> It adds an "ICMP" panel in the "Edit > Preferences > Protocols" panel,
>  and a checkbox labelled "Favor ICMP extensions for MPLS", not checked
>  by default.
> 
> If the option is checked, only the first 128 bytes of the original 
> packet are decoded as an IP packet. The end of the payload is decoded 
> as MPLS extensions.
> 
> Note that, in the case when the original packet has less than 128 
> bytes, the dissector's behavior is not changed : MPLS extensions are 
> decoded as before.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Brice Augustin
> Maria-Luiza Crivat
> 
>