Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [patch] fix for dissect_nt_sid

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:23:53 -0800
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:19:57PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> 1, I do not think SMB mandates the same alignment rules as DCERPC , thus
> the 4byte alignment may break SMB use of this function.

The *lack* of 4-byte alignment would break some SMB use of this
function.

I.e., were you to remove it, at least some non-DCE RPC SMB messages
would be dissected incorrectly.