Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 18049: /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-jxta.c

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just for information:
A student of mine is working on reassembly for SCTP. After it is done  
it will
be integrated into ethereal.

Best regards
Michael

On May 1, 2006, at 2:28 AM, guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> User: guy
> Date: 2006/04/30 09:28 PM
>
> Log:
>  UDP and SCTP aren't byte-stream protocols, so they don't offer TCP- 
> style
>  reassembly.  UDP has no notion of reassembly - that's done at the IP
>  layer - and SCTP has its own notions of reassembly which it currently
>  doesn't provide.  As such, TCP-style reassembly isn't possible for
>  JXTA-over-UDP or JXTA-over-SCTP.
>
>  As for TCP, a heuristic dissector for a TCP-based protocol can't  
> request
>  more data if it's rejecting a packet; make it not do so.  That should
>  fix the recent buildbot crash, although there are still some  
> reassembly
>  problems with that capture (c05-http-reply-r1.pcap.gz in the  
> menagerie
>  and on the SampleCaptures page of the Wiki) that aren't fixed yet.
>
> Directory: /trunk/epan/dissectors/
>   Changes    Path             Action
>   +106 -3    packet-jxta.c    Modified
>
>
>
> http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/viewcvs/viewcvs.py?rev=18049&view=rev
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