Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] yep, damnit... it's the linux kernel screwing with the packet dat

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From: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:45:21 -0600 
Heres the section from appletalk/aarp.c in the 2.2.13 kernel sources.

...
        }

        ea->function=ntohs(ea->function);
        
        /*
         *      Sanity check fields.
...

How annoying... Should ethereal do any handling of this, or should we
consider it being broke, and not care?

-- Nathan

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