Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: LDP multi-PDUs in one TCP segement support

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:02:21 -0800
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:07:29PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> What happens with LDP-over-UDP?  Is there one PDU per UDP packet?

At least as I read RFC 3036, there is.

> If so, the loop should be done only for TCP.

I've checked in a patch to do that...

> Also, each LDP PDU should get its own top-level tree; that's the way
> other protocols are handled when operating over TCP.

...and that; it also fixes what, at least as I read the spec, were some
errors in the handling of the length fields.

> (It should probably also handle TCP desegmentation as well.)

I haven't done that, however.