The spec describes the value as a 96-bit identifier that can range from 0 to 2^96 - 1. It serves as an id to track messages. So I think it's just a very large unsigned number. When you say opaque value, what do you mean by that?
Thanks, martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Harris Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:35 PM To: Developer support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 12 byte number On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Martin Corraine (mcorrain) wrote: > I'm working on another dissector and ran into a problem. As far as I > can see in the readme there is no way to fetch a 12 byte unsigned > number. So it's a value to be interpreted as a nonnegative integer (so a value of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02 is one greater than a value of 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01), rather than an opaque collection of bytes or a value to be interpreted in some fashion other than an integer? (2^96 things is a *lot* of things....) _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org https://wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org https://wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
