Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Gripe

[Ed Warnicke <hagbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Andreas Sikkema wrote:

> Ed Warnicke wrote:
>
> > Most of these shouldn't be that hard to handle as generalized
> > cases... but everytime I find myself saying that I think of
> > DNS and DNS compression... there will always be oddballs...
>
> But those are not the kind f protocols the general ethereal user will
> want to (quickly) add for themselves. And if they do I presume they
> have the knowledge to add something to E

That was roughly the point I was trying to make ( unfortunately
not very clearly :).  Solving the general case is hard.  Solving
a handleful of special cases that solve 90% of the problems is
not so hard.

Ed