Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Fragments of PDU in TCP packets.

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From: "Garth Bushell" <gbushell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:07:02 -0000
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:51:47PM +0000, Garth Bushell wrote:
> > I was wondering how a PDU accross TCP packet bounderays is decoded. I
have
> > an end of a PDU and the beggining of a PDU ending up in a TCP packet and
it
> > is not getting decoded properly. How is this handled in ethereal?
>
> It's handled in Ethereal *IF* the dissector for the protocol that runs
> atop TCP uses the TCP dissector's mechanism for doing it.
>
> Some protocols running atop TCP use it; others don't.  What protocol is
> this?
>

iSCSI. We are getting the PDU split accross TCP packets and so ehtereal gets
a bit confused. Where is the Documentation for this? I have always used
README.developer file. Where else would I look?

Cheers

Garth