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| author | Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xs4all.nl> | 2017-02-07 23:35:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> | 2017-02-08 22:31:43 +0000 |
| commit | b28b07379fe966f0a89ead9fe2fa30ac05e19e9c (patch) | |
| tree | ac220e970e06863d9a3833597f341dc1ff037327 /doc | |
| parent | edf5ae3fba16c8ed761ec5a55095e59fe96c7647 (diff) | |
editcap: handle too short frames in frame comparison
With option -I one can ignore the first number of bytes from the frame
while doing duplicate frame removal. This doesn't handle shorter frames
correctly. Add safeguards for this, and update the help text.
Bug: 13378
Change-Id: Ia6b65d0797f4069f0b89fa134114d88d80988211
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/20004
Petri-Dish: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/editcap.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/editcap.pod b/doc/editcap.pod index a122332f1d..0eff2c943d 100644 --- a/doc/editcap.pod +++ b/doc/editcap.pod @@ -178,9 +178,10 @@ opened. The default is to use a single output file. =item -I E<lt>bytes to ignoreE<gt> -Ignore the specified bytes number at the beginning of the frame during MD5 hash calculation -Useful to remove duplicated packets taken on several routers(differents mac addresses for example) -e.g. -I 26 in case of Ether/IP/ will ignore ether(14) and IP header(20 - 4(src ip) - 4(dst ip)). +Ignore the specified number of bytes at the beginning of the frame during MD5 hash calculation, +unless the frame is too short, then the full frame is used. +Useful to remove duplicated packets taken on several routers (different mac addresses for example) +e.g. -I 26 in case of Ether/IP will ignore ether(14) and IP header(20 - 4(src ip) - 4(dst ip)). The default value is 0. =item -L |