On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:

> Yes, but RFC 792 also says in the Introduction:
>
>             ICMP, uses the basic support of IP as if it were a higher
>   level protocol, however, ICMP is actually an integral part of IP,  
> and
>   must be implemented by every IP module.
>
> So if ICMP is technically an integral part of IP, then it follows that
> ICMP should use the byte ordering as defined by Appendix B of RFC 791
> ... shouldn't it?
>
> It's clear that the intent was to increment the sequence #, so IMO,
> Windows got it completely wrong in this case.

Would it help to introduce something similar to the relative TCP  
sequence numbers in the TCP dissector?  I know it seems like a lot of  
work to work around weirdness in Windows, but it's something to think  
about.


Steve

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