Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Should "dissect_tpkt_encap()" check only its "desegment" argu

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From: Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:29:00 +0200
Guy Harris wrote:

Anders Broman wrote:

But as this question has been asked a number of times perhaps the default
should be to do reassembly. Which has been discussed but I don't remember
the arguments for and against.


My inclination is to have the default for all XXX-over-TCP dissectors be
"do reassembly", and the default for TCP be "don't do reassembly", so you
can turn off reassembly in all dissectors just by changing the TCP flag;
That'd be helpful, agreed. But still, why shall the default for TCP be "don't do reassembly"? At least all of my users would still immediately want to turn it on, provided that they know about it. Do most others really have different needs? 


+Thomas

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