Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] the feature of limiting packet size

From: "Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao" <swzhao@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:31:34 -0700
Guy,
thank you very much for your help!
I was using a version which was slightly modified by my colleague here. It turns out it's his change that caused this problem. Mystery solved :)
 
Best,
Joshua


 
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 20, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao wrote:

> I believe it's a bug there, at least in 1.0.4 I'm using.
> I don't believe all packets have that big headers over 500 bytes.

What matters is whether all the data dissected in the packet is bigger
than the snapshot length; in an SMB request or response, for example,
that would include any radio header the packet has, the 802.11 header,
the IP header, the TCP header, the NetBIOS-over-TCP or SMB-over-TCP
header, and the entire SMB message, with the possible exception of
data in a read reply or write request.

> The code must checked the whole data payload size, instead of only
> checking the header length when it tries to dissect and throw an
> execption.
> I'll try to debug. Meanwhile any hints/suggestions are welcome.

Could you extract from the capture file one of the packets that's
claimed to have been cut short and send it to us?
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