Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7355] Showing IPv6 Hdr Ext Length instead of the full leng
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7355
--- Comment #6 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-06-16 11:55:58 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> IMHO, the objective of a dissector is to first display the correct value of a
> given field as defined by the RFC.
I believe it is displaying the correct value. To me, it's the same thing as
the IPv4 dissector displaying the Internet Header Length of a 20 byte IP header
as 20, instead of 5 with a blurb having to explain that this " ... is the
length of the internet header in 32 bit words"[1], and then forcing the user to
have to calculate the actual IP header length him/herself.
I prefer it the way it is. I also think it's likely that folks are used to
seeing it the way it is and would be confused if the 8 bytes were removed, very
possibly opening up another bug report asking to revert it back to how it's
currently displayed.
Well, as I said, I'm not a fan of this patch, but since I personally don't
analyze very many IPv6 captures (yet), I'll leave this to someone else to
decide as to how to handle this patch request.
[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791#section-3.1
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