Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] decouple dcerpc authentication from packet-dcerpc.c

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:15:13 +1000
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:35:04PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:

> >I think making the functions of type new_dissector_t instead of
> >dcerpc_dissect_fnct_t would be a better match.
> 
> Probably.  "new_dissector_t"s return a length rather than a new offset, 
> but one can be transformed into the other; the only reason a 
> "dcerpc_dissect_fnct_t" would be useful would be if there were an 
> authentication flavor that used NDR encoding so that the "drep" 
> argument was required.

Hmm - it turns out the NETLOGON secure channel needs the drep argument.
Oh well.