Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Dissect routines need to be told the size of the packet data

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:45:18 +1000
Hi,

It seems that there are situations where we need access to the length of
the actual frame/packet data available.

This seems especially so if the user has not captured enough of the frame,
we need to abort rather than try to keep decoding when there is no more
data to decode.



Regards
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