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Re: Nettl HP-UX


From: Chris Maynard <Chris.Maynard () gtech com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:26:13 +0000 (UTC)

Guy Harris <guy@...> writes:

The capture_xxx() functions are for doing a very quick and dirty dissection of
packets while we're
capturing traffic, so that instead of just showing a count of packets as we
capture, we can show a count of
particular types of packets.  Therefore, the right thing to do with invalid
packets would be to count them
as "other" packets and not bother doing any further dissection - just as we do
when doing a real dissection.

Right, thanks.  I normally hide the capture info dialog, so I forgot about those
statistics.

I checked in a change to explicitly increment the "other" count for these
invalid Ethernet frames, even though they would have been counted the same way
anyway in capture_ethertype(), but I think it's a little clearer this way.


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