Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] SNMP Packet size

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:43:06 -0800
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> Ethereal doesn't care how big the packet is (after all, you could be
> sending those packets over a link layer *other* than Ethernet).

...although, as Gilbert notes, if the packet is a fragmented IP
datagram, rather than an oversized Ethernet datagram, Ethereal cannot
dissect it, as it doesn't yet support reassembling fragmented IP
datagrams.  (It will probably do so eventually, but that will not happen
any time in the near future, as it's a significant undertaking, probably
involving tvbuffifying all dissectors at or above the IP layer, as well
as implementing IP fragment reassembly and attaching to IP fragments
per-packet data to allow the other fragements to be found for any given
fragment.)