Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Unknowing Package

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:27:18 -0800
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:15:08PM -0300, Rodrigo Bonfa Drago wrote:
> What the ethereal do when it captures a package at network and doesn't
> recognize the application protocol of this package (suppose that the
> package is of  a application)? The ethereal discards the package or puts
> as Unknow TCP or UDP package?

It display it as just a TCP segment or UDP datagram.  It does not
discard those packets.