Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal decodes bootp/dhcp option 2 incorrectly
I have checked in a fix for that issue.
It prints that packet as ... -7 hours ...
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:08:39 +0200, Radek Vokal <rvokal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Packet #2 - see Time Offset value.
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 07:37 -0400, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> > Do you have a small example capture you can send me i can use to test
> > and verify a fix with?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:14:29 +0200, Radek Vokal <rvokal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > When ethereal displays the formatted packet for a bootp/dhcp DHCPACK
> > > that contains option 2 (time offset), the value is not calculated
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > > Ethereal is treating the value as 32-bit UNsigned value, but it is
> > > supposed to be a SIGNED value. (See RFC 2132, section 3.4 Time Offset)
> > >
> > > Actual Results: Response from DHCP server ... 02 04 ff ff 9d 90 ...
> > > formatted as:
> > >
> > > Option 2: Time Offset = 49709 days, 23 hours, 28 minutes, 16 seconds
> > >
> > >
> > > Expected Results: The data portion of the data (0xff ff 9d 90) must be
> > > interpreted as a SIGNED number ( -25200 decimal) and is the number of
> > > seconds offset from UTC.
> > > This should display as:
> > >
> > > Option 2: Time Offset = -7 hours
> > > or
> > > Option 2: Time Offset = 0 days, -7 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
> > >
> > > See Red Hat bugzilla
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154082
> > >
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