Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Ethernet trailer

From: Richard Brodie <leogah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 00:08:41 +0100

> Moreover, I don't understand how ethernet dissector can find if there is padding or not.

You can only do this with '802.3' style frames where the type/length field contains a length. In the typical case, where the type/length field identifies a type, it's all passed up to the next

layer which will have to work it out for itself.

Richard Brodie.