The spec describes the value as a 96-bit identifier that can range from
0 to 2^96 - 1. It serves as an id to track messages. So I think it's
just a very large unsigned number. When you say opaque value, what do
you mean by that?
Thanks,
martin
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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:35 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 12 byte number
On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Martin Corraine (mcorrain) wrote:
> I'm working on another dissector and ran into a problem. As far as I
> can see in the readme there is no way to fetch a 12 byte unsigned
> number.
So it's a value to be interpreted as a nonnegative integer (so a value
of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02 is one
greater than a value of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x01), rather than an opaque collection of bytes or a value to
be interpreted in some fashion other than an integer? (2^96 things is a
*lot* of things....)
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