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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] incorrect packet length

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:24:55 -0800
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:22:59AM +0100, J.Smith wrote:
> Might it then not be a good idea if the term "Packet length (bytes)" that
> gets used in the Ethereal header column is renamed to something like "Frame
> length (bytes)"?

Given that Ethereal can reassemble data from multiple frames into a
single higher-level packet, and handle multiple higher-level packets per
frame, that renaming would make sense to me.