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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] decoding depth & capture format

From: "Marc Lebas" <mlebas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:20:03 -0000
Title: decoding depth & capture format

Hello,
Maybe its a User question but that could be a dev issue; anyway there was no answer to my question on the User's mailing list.

The issue : i got different depth in decoding (GPRS over FR), depending on the capture file format :
With rf5, the analysis is limited to GPRS protocol layers, but never decode IP which is the encapsulated protocol.
With libpcap, it is OK; Wireshark go deeper as it is able to decode encapsulated IP frames in GPRS frames.
Why such a behaviour ? Did i missed something in my config ?
Here is my config on Linux (but the issue is the same on Windows) :
- preferences : fr.encap: GPRS Network Service
- cat k12_protos : "gprs_gb","fr"
Marc