Re: Variable length packets?

2004-08-31 Thread Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)
, 2004 9:10 PM Subject: Re: Variable length packets? In the last episode (Aug 30), Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) said: I am trying to implement a custom protocol that sends and receives variable-length packets on top of TCP/IPv4. The problem is that the length field of the packet is silen

Re: Variable length packets?

2004-08-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 30), Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) said: > I am trying to implement a custom protocol that sends and receives > variable-length packets on top of TCP/IPv4. The problem is that the > length field of the packet is silently being mangled first becoming 0 > and

Variable length packets?

2004-08-30 Thread Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)
I am trying to implement a custom protocol that sends and receives variable-length packets on top of TCP/IPv4. The problem is that the length field of the packet is silently being mangled first becoming 0 and then getting turned into a very large number (about 2-3 billion). The length field