Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RE: [Ethereal-users] Re: H.225 SETUP not recog nised ? (2)

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:23:58PM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> |That will, I think, work for TCP - but for other protocols, where the
> |reassembly is done above the layer that handles the reassembled data
> |(e.g., IP fragment reassembly), that won't do it; we'd have to handle
> |that in some other way.
> 
> Couldn't we add this to the generic reassembly code?

No, because the generic reassembly code doesn't know what protocols will
show up above the layer at which it's doing the reassembly - even the
dissector *calling* the generic reassembly doesn't necessarily know
that, if heuristic dissectors are involve.