Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Sample MPLS sniffs.

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From: Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:13:48 -0500
> Thanks. I'll add them.  I have a couple questions:
> 
> In ethertype.c, you detect both ETHERTYPE_MPLS and ETHERTYPE_MPLS_MULTI,
> but only dissect the former.  Did you leave out the latter on purpose
> or accidentally?

On purpose. I have no multicast sniffs and I haven't coded support for
it. I just put it in as a placeholder. You can take it out as well.

> Are you able to run a display filter based on the existence of
> the "mpls" protocol? I can filter on things like "mpls.label > 20",
> but a filter on "mpls" on any of your traces shows *no* packets, even
> though they exist. I can filter on the existence of other protocols, but
> not mpls. Of course, this weekend I modified proto.c, so this may be
> my fault... I'm investigating.

Actually it's very possible that I didn't add a specific "mpls" filter
type. Let me check it out.

-Ashok

> 
> --gilbert
> 
> 
> 



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