Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Decoding LDAP Packets with Search Entry packet lengths grea

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:02:32 -0700 (PDT)
> What needs to be done to allow the LDAP dissector to decode large LDAP
> results (> 1500 MTU) that span across multiple ethernet packets?

A mechanism to allow dissectors for protocols running atop TCP to, when
they detect that one of their PDUs doesn't entirely fit within the
current TCP segment, save the data for the segment, and do the same for
subsequent segments, needs to be implemented.  (The dissector would also
have to handle all or part of more than one PDU being in a single TCP
segment; obviously, this doesn't have to be done for PDUs that fit
entirely within a TCP segment.)