Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ip defragment, virtual packets

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From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:02:24 -0500
Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> 
> > Here's a patch, which applies to the current CVS version of Ethereal.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the named data sources stuff works right only if all the
> > dissectors handed the named data are tvbuffified.
> >
> > This may be a failure in the way we handle calling old-style dissectors
> > from tvbuffified dissectors...
> 
> One really really good reason to fix packet-nfs.c then.
> Any volunteers?
> 
> packet-nfs.c and packet-hclnfs.c are the only two non tvbuffified rpc
> dissectors
> remaining.
> Unfortunately both use UDP and both normally generate a lot of fragmented ip
> packets.
> 

I'll try to get to the packet-afs stuff, but haven't done any tvbuf
stuff yet, so am not positive where to start/etc.

-- Nathan

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