Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Patch for epan/dissectors/packet-arp.c
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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:14:54 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

Checked in.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Roger Gottsponer wrote:

> Hi list!
>
> This is my first email to this list. So first of all, I would like
> to thank everybody who contributed to this wonderful piece of software.
> It greatly helps me in my daily work and without wireshark,
> professional life would be much worse...
>
> During troubleshooting an ARP problem, I found an issue with wireshark
> to properly recognise Gratuitous ARP packets. Gratuitous ARP packets
> can be made with ARP request or ARP reply packets.
>
> Wireshark reports Gratuitous ARP packets made of an ARP request
> properly as gratuitous. However, if a Gratuitous ARP packet is made
> of an ARP reply, wireshark does report it as an ordinary ARP reply
> instead of reporting it as a Gratuitous ARP.
>
> The attached patch allows wireshark to recognise and report all
> gratuitous ARP packets.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger