Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] direct decode of higher layers without lower layer headers

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From: Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 17:13:39 +0530
Okay. But by inserting dummy headers for lower layers, we should be
able to make-do! And text2pcap can do this (i mean for SS7 layers) ?

-bd

On 12/8/05, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Banibrata Dutta wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to decode higher layers directly without the lower
> > layers being present ? Some way in which we explicitly (manually) set
> > some parameters that may help in decoding.
>
> No.  There is no general mechanism to support that.
>
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