Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Having an invisible field on the TCP header giving number of

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:41:58 +0930 (CST)
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 06:35:07AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > When trying to analyse a trace recently, I wanted to mark no-data ACKs 
> > differently so I could ignore them or see the patters, and I found myself 
> > doing something like ip.len==40, which is not nice.
> > 
> > So, does anyone have any objections,
> 
> I don't - it sounds reasonable and useful.
> 
> > or suggestions about what the field should be?
> 
> It should be the TCP payload length in the segment; I'd call it
> "tcp.len".

OK, added, and tested now. It works. It might not be in the most 
appropriate place.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxx, 
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