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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tcp_dissect_pdus() & fixed_len issue

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:47:29 -0600
---- On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:55:02 -0600 Tobias Weiss<tweiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ---- 

 > I'm currently developing a dissector for a quite old TCP protocol. Most of the stuff is straight forward and not a real problem. But right now I'm facing an issue and need some help. 
 >  
 > In my main dissector function I'm calling tcp_dissect_pdus(), but there are 3 cases or let's say headers which could be within the stream: 

Before going any further, I want to confirm that you do need TCP desegmentation and that you can't deal with the packets one-by-one (probably with the help of conversation tracking).