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

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From: Motonori Shindo <mshindo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:47:30 +0900 (JST)
From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] bug fix in packet-mdshdr.c
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.

OK. Sorry for my ignorance about Cisco MDS switch:-) I agree that
preference control is nice to have.

How about the patch itself? If you need a capture file that causes a
crash, I can send it to you.

Regards,