On 4 mei 2011, at 22:11, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> Max Dmitrichenko wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I'm continue to write dissector for an encrypted protocol. Everything
>> works fine until I receive an out-of-order TCP segment, i.e. previous
>> was lost.
>> Since I'm trying to decrypt it, I fail with it and break the whole
>> decryption context. Is there any way to:
>> 1) Detect that this packet is out of order in given conversation?
>> 2) Ask the TCP dissector to feed this packet later again when all
>> previous segments will be retransmitted?
> 
> I would think desegment_tcp() should be able to handle this by not calling 
> your dissector for an out-of-order segment: it should be able to only call 
> your dissector once it has a completely reassembled (desegmented) PDU.  
> Looking through the code, it's not immediately obvious to me what the problem 
> is.

One case that can cause a problem is when the first segment of a PDU is 
received out-of-order. Or did your recent work also handle this exception, Jeff?

Cheers,


Sake

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