Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] need to read three bytes of offset
From: prashanth s <prbanglore@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:13:14 +0530
Hi Guy Harris,
 
thanks for the clarification.
I was writing a function to read such 3 byte values and convert them to int. Unaware that uint24 field is supported in C (I have seen uint24 field only in wireshark).
Now I am using the uint24 type.
 
Regards,
Prashanth


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:00 PM, prashanth s wrote:

> Nopes. But the values that appear in the pcap -  for example,  ba cf need to be interpreted by my parser as ba cf(this is the value,for example, that the company talks about. Hence it may be assumed that the byte order followed by the company is Big Endian.

If you mean that fields in that protocol other than the 3-byte field are big-endian, then...

> So would this mean that the 3 bytes appearing on the pcap also follow the Big Endianness?

...that means that the 3-byte field is probably also big-endian.
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