Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ip defragment, virtual packets

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:05:14 -0700
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:49:12AM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> (This is good since with this option, upper layer dissectors will never ever
> see fragments again.
> As far as TCP/UDP/... are concerned, IP can no longer be fragmented.

Given that defragmentation can be turned on and off, that's only the
case if defragmentation is turned on; an upper-layer dissector will be
called for the first fragment if defragmentation is turned off.