Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 12 byte number

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:34:43 -0700

On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Martin Corraine (mcorrain) wrote:

I'm working on another dissector and ran into a problem. As far as I can see in the readme there is no way to fetch a 12 byte unsigned number.

So it's a value to be interpreted as a nonnegative integer (so a value of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02 is one greater than a value of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01), rather than an opaque collection of bytes or a value to be interpreted in some fashion other than an integer? (2^96 things is a *lot* of things....)