Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] a new dissector for a proprietary packet format

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 01:38:20 -0700
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:37:21PM +0900, SEKINE Hideki wrote:
> It seems to me that Ethereal does not dissect the "MPLS 
> multicast label switched packet" which has llc.type == 0x8848.

That's a bit bizarre - we dissect both 0x8847 and 0x8848 the same way if
it's running over Cisco HDLC, but we don't do so if it's running over
Ethernet or GRE.

Is there any reason *not* to dissecto 0x8847 and 0x8848 with the same
code in all cases?