Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Having an invisible field on the TCP header gi ving number of

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:44:26 +0200
Hi all,

It is true indeed that many current TCP implementations do *not* set the PSH
flag correctly. I *used* to filter on 'tcp.flags.psh == 1' for checking
segments containing data, but I always lacked data this way. Having this
tcp.len field, will definitely help a lot!

Regards,

Olivier

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx]
: Sent: zondag 21 april 2002 7:12
: To: Guy Harris
: Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
: Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Having an invisible field on the 
: TCP header
: giving number of bytes
: 
: 
: On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Guy Harris wrote:
: 
: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 06:35:07AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
: > > When trying to analyse a trace recently, I wanted to mark 
: no-data ACKs 
: > > differently so I could ignore them or see the patters, 
: and I found myself 
: > > doing something like ip.len==40, which is not nice.
: > > 
: > > So, does anyone have any objections,
: > 
: > I don't - it sounds reasonable and useful.
: > 
: > > or suggestions about what the field should be?
: > 
: > It should be the TCP payload length in the segment; I'd call it
: > "tcp.len".
: 
: OK, added, and tested now. It works. It might not be in the most 
: appropriate place.
: 
: Regards
: -----
: Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxx, 
: sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
: 
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