Re: Malformed packet

[Brian Oleksa <oleksab () darkcornersoftware com>]

Mike

Unfortunately.. I do not have a debugger available.

It doesn't appear to be reading beyond the end of the packet....but 
without a debugger handy... I am not sure how I can tell.

Any other help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian



Mike Morrin wrote:
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> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Malformed packet
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> Why would I be getting a Malformed Packet error..??
>
> I wrote a dissector where I am dissecting several packets to which I am 
> very happy with the outcome in the wireshark gui.
> I am getting exactly what I am expecting to get (as I hard coded the 
> data in the packets).
>
> But at the end of every packet... I get this highlighted pink line that 
> says "Malformed Packet".
>
> Again....I am very happy with the outcome of all the packets that I am 
> dissecting (which tells me that my dissector "appears" to be working 
> properly).
>
> Any ideas..??
>
> Is your dissector trying to read beyond the end of the packet?
>
> If you can run inside a debugger, then try putting a breakpoint on the
> Wireshark exception handler, it should quickly show you how the
> exception is triggered.
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