Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Dissector design question

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From: "Michael J. Lynch" <mlynch@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:12:00 -0600
This question was triggered by a post from someone having trouble
getting message fragment re-assembly working.  The basic question I
have is, if I write a dissector for a protocol that rides on top of
another protocol (TCP for example) and the upper level protocol
does not in and of itself fragment messages but does send messages
large enough to cause them to be fragmented by the TCP layer, can
I count on the message being re-assembled by the TCP dissector
before it is handed off to my dissector?


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Michael J. Lynch

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