[tcpdump-workers] tcpdump display/decode bug?

2008-07-30 Thread Stephen Donnelly
I recently came across some packets which tcpdump appears to display incorrectly. Is tcpdump incorrectly invoking some heuristic dissector, or is there another reason? $ tcpdump -n -r tcpdump-error.pcap reading from file tcpdump-error.pcap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet) 08:35:24.570337 vlan 506, p

Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump display/decode bug?

2008-07-30 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Stephen Donnelly wrote: I recently came across some packets which tcpdump appears to display incorrectly. Is tcpdump incorrectly invoking some heuristic dissector, or is there another reason? I guess that's what I'd call it. tcpdump assumes that packets to or fr

Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump display/decode bug?

2008-07-30 Thread Stephen Donnelly
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 20:07 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Stephen Donnelly wrote: > > > I recently came across some packets which tcpdump appears to display > > incorrectly. > > > > Is tcpdump incorrectly invoking some heuristic dissector, or is there > > another reason?