On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Glenn Matthews wrote:

> I'm working on a new dissector for a TCP-based protocol. I think I've got the 
> dissector successfully handling fragmented packets (using tcp_dissect_pdus), 
> and I think I've got the dissector successfully handling truncated packets 
> ("packet size limited during capture") but what do I need to do for captures 
> where both apply?

Add support for reassembly of cut-off-by-the-snaplen packets to Wireshark.

I.e.:

> Is this a known limitation in Wireshark,

Yes.

It might be possible to remove that limitation, but it'd probably be tricky.  
I'd suggest using "-s 0" as the argument to tcpdump when capturing (the "96" 
sounds suspiciously like the default snapshot length for IPv6-capable tcpdump 
until the recent changes to default to 65535, that being what you get with "-s 
0" in tcpdumps from the past N years for some value of N).
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