Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] UDP desegmentation - how to?
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From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:49:38 +0100
On 22 dec 2010, at 09:58, Kaul wrote:

> Can I use something like tcp_dissect_pdus() for UDP packets? Specifically, Kerberos over UDP - I think we can get the PDU length from the packet and get a complete PDU.

As the UDP header is missing a sequence number, it is not possible to do UDP reassembly at the UDP layer. It needs to be done at a higher layer where the order of fragments can be determined.

Cheers,


Sake