Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] COL_INFO for andX commands

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:04:08 +0930 (CST)
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> SMB is request/response yes.
> However, SMB allows you to have multiple(more than one) concurrent requests
> in flight at
> any give time.
> This limit is negotiated in either the SessionSetup or the TreeConnect
> PDU(dont remember by heart)
> and it is called MaxMpxCt .

Oh, I agree, but only certain clients will do that. 
 
> It would be useful if ethereal could flag when a client had reached (or
> where close to)
> its MaxMpxCt limit.
> 
> 
> From: "Richard Sharpe"
> 
> > Hmmm, because SMB is a request/response protocol, I cannot think of a case
> > where you are going to have two NBSS messages in a TCP segment in
> > practice?
> 
> 
> 

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