[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 21, 2003, at 2:21 PM, Dinesh G Dutt wrote:

> You're right. With newer versions of the feature, it is possible to 
> get the
> actual frame length as part of the packet (for example it is a field 
> in the
> Boardwalk header).

OK, then:

	if you have the frame length, either the ability to set the reported 
length of a tvbuff to a *larger* value than it currently has should be 
added, and you should use that, or you should construct a new 
"top-level" tvbuff with the specified reported length;

	if you don't have the frame length, setting the reported length to 
MAX_INT would, I suspect, cause all out-of-bounds references to throw a 
BoundsError exception rather than a ReportedBoundsError exception.