Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] IPv6 over MPLS coding

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From: "Jeff Jahr" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:54:06 -0800
On Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:51 AM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>(I think theoretically MPLS (being Multi-Protocol Label Switching)
>could all sorts of protocols, but I don't know a generalized way
>to determine which one is in use. So this is not perfect, but
>an improvement over assuming IPv4.)

Right.  I dont believe that you can determine the next encap type
after the MPLS header just by looking at the MPLS header.  So what
is the right way in ethereal to let the user choose the next
decoder in the chain?  A hook into the 'decode as' requester?

-jsj