Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] bug fix in packet-mdshdr.c

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:35:07 -0700
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:37:00AM +0900, Motonori Shindo wrote:
> BTW, this dissector registers itself for the frame with
> ETHERTYPE_UNK. Is this really necessary?

Unfortunately, it apparently is, at least if you work at Cisco and want
to conveniently decode packets captured internally to a Cisco MDS
switch.

I suppose they could add a protocol preference to control whether an
ethertype of 0 should be interpreted as MDS internal packets or as a
bogus frame.