Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.8.4: Viewing IPIP inner packet in packet list, not

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:26:21 -0500
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:47:11AM -0500, Santeri Paavolainen wrote:
> 
> 
> This was tested on Linux 2.2.14 machine while looking at tunneled IP (in
> IPSEC AH tunnel).
> 
> Problem: When viewing a list of captured packets in ethereal (the
> upper pane), it displays the *inner* headers, not the outer
> (transport) headers. This seems to me quite wrong: you want to see the
> headers of the packet you captured, not what is inside it..

"wrong" is dependent upon the user. What we really need (and I've said
this before, but not acted upon it) is a user-configurable option allowing
the payloads of tunnelling-like protocols to be displayed either way.

--gilbert