[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

At 06:25 PM 12/24/00 +0800, jonathan wrote:
>
>> Which version of Ethereal are you using?  (Either run "ethereal -v" from
>> the command line, or select "About" from the "Help" menu.)
>> 
>> In 0.8.14, however, the TFTP dissector was changed to use tvbuffs, so it
>> should throw an exception if it tries to do that, and there should be a
>> "Short Frame" or "Malformed Frame" error if that happens.
>> 
>
>I am using version 0.8.14. Thanks for the pointer to the TFTP options
>RFC. However, the hex. display (which ethereal produces) still doesnt
>map, even if I consider the 'options' RFC. The hex output maps  to
>the etherenet header-ip header-udp header-tftp packet. So i can't see
>where Ethereal is getting the information about the options from. Strange.
>Thanks for your help. 

Well done, you have found the bug we left for you ... Now you can fix it
and become a contributor :-)

>The URI is : www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~jonathan/ethereal 
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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