Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 12 byte number

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Martin Corraine (mcorrain) wrote:

> I'm working on another dissector and ran into a problem. As far as I  
> can see in the readme there is no way to fetch a 12 byte unsigned  
> number.

So it's a value to be interpreted as a nonnegative integer (so a value  
of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02 is one  
greater than a value of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00  
0x00 0x00 0x01), rather than an opaque collection of bytes or a value  
to be interpreted in some fashion other than an integer?  (2^96 things  
is a *lot* of things....)