Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Mis-interpreted field in RSVP

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From: Steve Yao <syao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:02:14 -0500
Hi Guy,

Sorry for the delayed response. Please see the attached capture file that
contains one captured RSVP message.

Thanks,
- Steve




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:58 PM
> To: Steve Yao
> Cc: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Mis-interpreted field in RSVP
> 
> 
> > I used Ethereal 0.8.10 to decode some RSVP messages.
> > I found that Ethereal mis-interpreted the message type field
> > in the RSVP header when the value is 20. It is supposed to 
> be the Hello
> > message type defined in RSVP-TE. But Ethereal displayed 
> "Explicit Route
> > Object" as the message type. Interestingly, the Class Num 
> field for Explicit
> > Route Object is defined to be 20.
> 
> I don't see any way that could have happened, even in the 0.8.10
> version, unless it misinterpreted the type field as a class field.
> 
> Do you have a capture file you can send us?
> 


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