Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Fragments of PDU in TCP packets.

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:28:39 -0800
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:51:47PM +0000, Garth Bushell wrote:
> I was wondering how a PDU accross TCP packet bounderays is decoded. I have
> an end of a PDU and the beggining of a PDU ending up in a TCP packet and it
> is not getting decoded properly. How is this handled in ethereal?

It's handled in Ethereal *IF* the dissector for the protocol that runs
atop TCP uses the TCP dissector's mechanism for doing it.

Some protocols running atop TCP use it; others don't.  What protocol is
this?