Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] H.323 (H.245/H.225) Info-column information

[Andreas Sikkema <ramdyne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Regner wrote:

> I think that it would be good to have the Info-column information
> for H.225/H.245 a bit different to be really useful for some of the
> scenarios I'm using Ethereal (many tunneled H.245 messages). I had
> similar problems when using the H.323-plugin and I recently made
> some "quick and dirty" changes to the H.323-plugin to get a bit
> better info in the Info-column for my needs.

If you asked me, I would have tried to give you that kind of
functionality ;-)

> It would be good to see what tunneled H.245 messages there is in the message, e.g.
> "CS: facility  MasterSlaveDetermination TerminalCapabilitySet,"
> or maybe shorter
> "CS: facility  MSDet TCS,"

That's a great idea!

> Currently the H.245 dissector shows "Indication", "Response", "Request" ... before the actual H.245 message, but is that really
> useful information?  Isn't it the actual H.245 message that is important (OLC, OLCAck, MSDet, MSDetAck... )?

It is absoluely of no use and easily fixed. I have looked into it
yeaterday but was too tired to do anything useful. I wil try later
tonight.





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Andreas Sikkema