Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: [Ethereal-dev] Cisco IP phone and RFC 1350

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 21:36:44 +1000
Hi,

Can you send us the actual capture file? uuencode the compressed capture
file and attach it.

At 03:06 PM 12/24/00 +0800, jonathan wrote:
>Hi all - 
>
>    I was using ethereal to determine the contents of some TFTP packets.
>    Now according to RFC 1350 (which is the latest RFC on TFTP as far
>as I know), the format of read request packets (RRQ) is : 
>
>
>          2 bytes    string   1 byte     string   1 byte
>          -----------------------------------------------
>   RRQ/  | 01/02 |  Filename  |   0  |    Mode    |   0  |
>   WRQ    -----------------------------------------------
>          
> However, when using Ethereal I find in the protocol tree of TFTP an
>'option' field. Does anyone have any idea why this is the case? I have
>a screen capture (and detailed information) at :
>
> www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~jonathan/ethereal
>
> so please do take a look and could someone please explain the option
>field. (which I cannot account for even when using the hex output for
>ethereal).
>
>Thanks again
>
>jonathan
>
>
>
>
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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