On 16 nov 2010, at 19:17, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> 
>> Should TCP reassembly be done when the packet size was limited during 
>> capture?
> 
> Not unless we can do reassembly with "holes" in the result, which we 
> currently can't do.  At least some other dissectors check to make sure, when 
> adding data to the reassembled packet, that all the data they're adding is 
> present.

IMHO reassembly is not very useful when packets have been truncated. So I would 
prevent TCP reassembly at the TCP level (actually I was under the impression 
the TCP dissector was doing that already, but I could be mistaken).


Sake

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