Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] IP Reassembly in Tethereal

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:10:26 -0800
Ulf Lamping wrote:

The only thing you must do is to set the right protocol preferences.

...either by editing your Ethereal preferences file with a text editor (create one if you don't have one) which will change your default setting, passing "-o ip.defragment:true" as an argument to Tethereal which will change the setting for that session of Tethereal only, or...

It might be easier to use Ethereal to set the according Preferences, both programs use the same Preferences file.

...which amounts to "editing your Ethereal preferences file with Ethereal", *if* you save your new preferences (if you don't save them, it will have no effect on Tethereal).