Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12124] Default decoding of MPLS

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Pascal Quantin changed bug 12124

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Comment # 5 on bug 12124 from Pascal Quantin

(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #3)
> What if the label *isn't* 5000?  What if they don't *know* what the right
> label is - for example, what if they want to run TShark on a capture that
> nobody's looked at yet, and have all MPLS traffic for which there's 1) no
> explicit label-to-dissector binding and 2) nothing chosen by the 1st nibble
> logic (see BCP 4928, RFC 4385 and 5586) as some particular default?
> 
> Before the restructuring of Decode As, you could do that.  Now you can't.

I agree this is a loss of functionality as we do not seem to have a wildcard
support in decode_as_entries file allowing to indicate that the default handler
should be whatever sub protocol we want.
I'm really wondering if this MPLS option removal was a good thing or not.

BTW I believe tshark should load the decode_as_entries file. Any objection?

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