Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [resend]MMS dissector bug?

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:40:09 -0800
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:59:32AM -0700, Steve Schaeffer wrote:

> It seems to me that an 8-bit "bit-string" should only show 8 entries 
> in the packet details, not 512 as in packet #497 in the attachment to 
> bug #1229:
>                         success: bit-string (4)
>                             Padding: 3
>                             bit-string: 80 (offset0)
>                                 1... .... = offset0: True

>                                 .... ...0 = offset511: False

I'm not familiar with the protocol, but it looks like all 512 are hard 
coded into the dissector.  Does the bit-string need to be only 8 bits 
long?  Do you have access to the standards documents by chance?


Steve