RE: [Ethereal-dev] Dissecting a conversation.

[nak26 <nak26@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>That is avoid managing the reassembly of the TCP segments.

Managing the reassembly of TCP segments is not that daunting of a task.

Just follow Guy Harris's instructions:
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Use the "tcp_dissect_pdus()"
routine, which takes, as arguments:

the tvbuff for the TCP segment being dissected;

the pinfo value for the packet;

the protocol tree pointer for the packet;

a Boolean value that's TRUE if packets split between TCP
segments should be reassembled and FALSE if they shouldn't be
reassembled (this is typically a user-configurable preference
variable);

the number of bytes of header needed in order to get the data
that tells you how big the message is;

a pointer to a routine that's handed a tvbuff pointer and an
offset in that tvbuff, where the offset is the offset of the
beginning of a header, and returns the total size of the packet
based on the data in the header (total size *including* the
header!);

a pointer to a routine to dissect a single message for your
protocol, which gets handed the usual arguments for a dissector
function - the tvbuff starts at the beginning of the message.

See, for example, "packet-dns.c".

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Nik Kolev
Drexel University
Major: Computer Science
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