Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch : OLSR decoding with unknown message types
Before my wifes hotmail account stopped me from attaching anything at all
I usually had to gzip the stuff to stop hotmail from corrupting the patches.
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:42:40 -0800, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yann . wrote:
>
> > Hello Gerald,
> > Hello list,
>
> Gerald is, as far as I know, on the list, so I don't think you need to
> CC him on mail you send to the list.
>
> > As I'm developping an extension to olsrd, I noticed that the current
> > Ethereal OLSR decoding does not handle properly messages with a custom
> > message type. The first OLSR message in the packet with an unknown
> > message type is considered to have no payload and the remaining data is
> > decoded like if it were a new message header. The decoding of the rest
> > of the packet is then totally wrong.
> >
> > Here is a patch that modifies 'epan/dissectors/packet-olsr.c' to fix
> > this issue.
>
> Unfortunately, "patch" doesn't accept the patch - it was reformatted by
> your mail software, so I had to un-word-wrap many lines, and "patch"
> still didn't accept it after I did that.
>
> You're using Hotmail - Ronnie, what was the secret to getting Hotmail
> not to mangle patches?
>
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