Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Frame vs Packet length

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:17:11 +0100 (CET)
Hi list,

Bug 813 states: "The frame size is properly labeled in the first
line of output. On line 6 of output the frame length is improperly being
labeled as 'Packet Length'. Obviously this is a trivial issue, but since
ethereal tries to be very strict in it's description of a frame, it is
clearly inaccurate to say a packet is the same thing as a frame."

Sounds reasonable, although we might want to keep "frame.pkt_len" around
as an alias for "frame.frm_len".

See also the related issue discussed in
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200212/msg00077.html

Thanx,
Jaap