Appropriate action on a protocol failure?

["J.C. Wren" <jcwren () jcwren com>]

My protocol payloads consists of one or more TLV (Type-Length-Values)
sequences.  The dissector decodes the various TLVs.  Values represent
various parameters to a commands.  Right now if a value is out of range, I
use DISSECTOR_ASSERT() for the test.  I know this isn't the best way to do
it, but I don't know what it is.  I do want to stop decoding the packet at
this point, since it's likely everything following it is munged.  What's the
suggestion course of action here?

Thanks!
--jc

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