Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] NFS dissector continued

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:07:24 -0800 (PST)
> * I would like to dissect the NFS file handle a bit further (major,minor of
> the device, inode of the file). The problem is only, every NFS server uses a
> different encoding scheme.

...and the encoding schemes may change over time (we changed ours when
we added support for multiple file systems; we threw in a flag bit to
say whether it was an old-format or new-format file handle, and we
return old-format file handles in responses to requests that contained
old-format file handles, so that clients don't become confused).

There's another program ("nfswatch", or something such as that), that
also tries to dissect the file handle heuristically as well.