Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] but I don't have iSCSI!

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:23:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Ethereal recognizes some of my tcp packets as iSCSI, but it is wrong! I'm sure
> about that. Maybe because some of my tcp packets happen to contain "01 ff" or
> something ?

Yes, the iSCSI heuristic appears to be really weak, and to identify all
sorts of non-iSCSI traffic as iSCSI.

> I don't know if this is a bug or an unavoidable thing that cannot be made
> transparent to the user.  My question is: How do I tell Ethereal to *not*
> interpret packets as iSCSI? I know the Edit->Protocols menu, but can I put in
> in a permanent configuration file?

Currently, no.  At some point we'll probably put the stuff in
"Edit->Protocols" into a configuration file.