Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] RPC, NFS, NLM

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From: Uwe Girlich <Uwe.Girlich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:17:27 +0200
Hello!

I just checked in some clean-up changes in the RPC dissector, with consequences
for NFS.

The other change is in NLM v1, which can now dissect some basic functions (I 
implemented just the functions, which were necessary to dissect one tcpdump
of a bad lock manager configuration). If I find the time, more functions 
(and the other version numbers) will be implemented as well.

One point are the asynchronous lock manager calls. They don't expect (in
contrast to the usual RPC protocol) any reply but the RPC dissector put these
calls (with their conversation) in the list of open RPC connections. This
is unavoidable because the list contains a counter to detect any
retransmissions of the same request.

Uwe