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

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:43:50 -0500
From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:36 AM

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:20:57AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > This may be a failure in the way we handle calling old-style dissectors
> > from tvbuffified dissectors...
> > 
> > ...but the right way to fix it is, I think, to get rid of the remaining
> > old-style dissectors or, at least, get rid of the ones for protocols
> > that run atop UDP (you're unlikely to get TCP segments inside fragmented
> > IP datagrams, although it's not impossible to get that).
> 
> The problem is worse - calling *any* old-style dissector when you're
> working on a secondary data source may not work correctly, as:

.....


What do you want to do?  I'm working on the release right now, should I 
continue, or stop and wait for patches?

Yet another reason to get all dissectors to tvbuffers.

Jeff F.