>but i noticed that the TCP checksum test fails

That may be an issue. Try disabling TCP checksum validation in the
preferences for TCP.

By default, TCP reassembly will ignore all packets with a checksum failure
or "short" packets. (i.e. packets captures with a snaplen smaller than the
ethernet mtu)



On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:57 PM, יוני תובל <yoni6...@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi , thanks .
> it seems to be working , but only when i raise the flag 
> "pinfo->can_desegment=1
> "  inside the get_len method .
> but i noticed that the TCP checksum test fails in all the reassembled
> packets .
> why is that ?
> actually it also fails when i send the whole message in one buffer ...
> so its probably a different issue . . .
>
>
> thanks
> 2009/2/23 Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu>
>
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:59 AM, יוני תובל wrote:
>>
>> > i tried to return the entire message length . still fails .
>> > (it only succeeds when the tvb consists of the entire message )
>> > What about he offest value we pass to the get_len method .
>>
>> It's the offset into the tvbuff handed to the get_len routine of the
>> first byte of the packet whose length should be returned.
>>
>> Presumably the PDUs consist of a 2-byte length field (in network byte
>> order?) followed by that number of bytes of data, and, in the get_len
>> routine, you fetch the length value from the packet, add 2 to it, and
>> return that value.
>>
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