Thanks for the insight.

Probably too early to label this a bug, but definitely a change in behavior.
"Works" (may be in the eye of the beholder) in 2.6 and 3.0.
Output changed in 3.1 and 3.2.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 8:01 PM John Thacker <johnthac...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 5:32 PM chuck c <bubbas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> tshark --export-objects dicom is behaving differently than exporting
>> Dicom objects in Wireshark.
>>
>> Is the "-2" option assumed to be set, observed if set or not used at all
>> for exporting objects with tshark?
>>
>
> Having implemented Export Objects on a different custom TFTP-like
> protocol, I experienced the same thing.
>
> With tshark, -2 is observed if set, and that can result in different
> behavior. Generally more accurate information is obtained with two
> passes, which is equivalent to Wireshark behavior.
>
> There are certain protocols where single pass analysis just isn't
> sufficient to determine all the data, and dissectors where some state
> object is set, like packet-dcm.c, are a common case.
>
> John Thacker
>
>
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