Re: [ethereal-dev] Dissect routines need to be told the size of the packet data

[Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that there are situations where we need access to the length of
> the actual frame/packet data available.
> 
> This seems especially so if the user has not captured enough of the frame,
> we need to abort rather than try to keep decoding when there is no more
> data to decode.
> 

Yes, this is available in dissect routines via the (frame_data) fd->caplen
variable.

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