Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reply ASAP:Extensions to wireshark
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:25:09 -0700
On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Malgi Nikitha wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm Nikitha Malgi working for IP Infusion India currently.
> I and a colleague of mine have both worked on extending the wireshark to support TRILL and MPLS-TP payloads and we have been successful in doing it.
> We are now planning it to contribute to the open source. Can any of you tell the exact procedure to be followed in doing so asap.

It appears that this mail message got stuck, and arrived after the later re-transmission of the message, to which a reply was sent.

E-mail should be thought of as a datagram protocol, even though it runs atop what might be thought of as a link layer that provides reliable delivery (SMTP) - there's no end-to-end guarantee of reliable or ordered delivery.

This means that you might need retransmission, i.e. resending a message...

...but don't retransmit too quickly, given that a mail system can be stuck for hours or even days, and given that e-mail is often a request/response protocol, i.e. mail messages often ask questions to which a reply is wanted, and given that there's no guarantee that a reply can or will be generated within a short period of time.