Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Handling of malformed iee803.3 packets

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From: Dominique bastien <ip6helper@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:38:14 -0400 (EDT)
it's look like the programmer from Extrem forget to
add the ethernet Header and SNAP header lengths(14+8)
for is Header length value. A possibility is to
compare the number of byte capture with the value of
the length field and put a warning at the length line
in the output capture.

Dominique

--- Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've a packet that has an incorrect ieee803.3
> header: The length field
> is too small to reflect the real packet size. This
> causes the edp dissector
> to report a malformed packet, as it is supplied with
> too few data byes.
> Is there a better way to handle this scenario in the
> 803.3 dissector or
> is this problem too specific?
> 
> Trace is attached.
> 
>  ciao
>         Joerg
> -- 
> Joerg Mayer                                         
>  <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really
> want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead
> of technology.
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