Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: question on TLV

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From: "Alok" <alokdube@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:18:45 +0530
the problem is that given a specific case where it is supposed to work, the
incumbent data collector also does the same thing..............

it willingly accepts 8 bytes for 6 .

so as usual i am the moron.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal development" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: question on TLV


> Alok wrote:
>
> > No it isnt... i checked on that.... the protocol  was an LFAP draft by
the
> > way
>
> Then, if you can, ask the author of the draft whether TLVs are supposed
> to be padded to 4-byte boundaries and, if they say "no", ask the author
> of the LFAP implementation that sent the packets in question whether
> they were aware that TLVs are not supposed to be passed to 4-byte
> boundaries.  (Perhaps, as per Mark Pilant's suggestion, they just used
> "sizeof(structure)" in their implementation, without realizing that
> structure sizes are often padded to be a multiple of 4 bytes.)
>
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