Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Mis-interpreted field in RSVP

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
> I used Ethereal 0.8.10 to decode some RSVP messages.
> I found that Ethereal mis-interpreted the message type field
> in the RSVP header when the value is 20. It is supposed to be the Hello
> message type defined in RSVP-TE. But Ethereal displayed "Explicit Route
> Object" as the message type. Interestingly, the Class Num field for Explicit
> Route Object is defined to be 20.

I don't see any way that could have happened, even in the 0.8.10
version, unless it misinterpreted the type field as a class field.

Do you have a capture file you can send us?