Wireshark

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:15:30PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:34:09PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> > Not really linux-nfs4, but someone should fix this:
> > 
> > wireshark-1.0.1/epan/dissectors/packet-rpc.c:
> > static guint max_rpc_tcp_pdu_size = 262144;
> > 
> > It should probably be at least 1M.
> 
> Yes.  Note though that it seems to be configurable:
> Edit->Preferences->Protocols->RPC, "Maximum size of a RPC-over-TCP PDU"
> (that's a mouthful; any suggestions for something less jargon-y?)
> 
> I wonder what the drawbacks are to setting it too high?  I'm tempted to
> go for at least 64 Megs or so just to future-proof it.

I went ahead and set it to 16M in the version at

	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/wireshark.git

If that seems OK then I'll pass it along to the wireshark people some
day.

--b.