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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2459] New columns for automotive packets

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:48:55 -0700 (PDT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2459





--- Comment #3 from Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>  2008-04-16 09:48:53 GMT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I must admit, I was not aware of the custom columns. I have been playing around
> a little with them, but I wonder how I should do the following:
> I have some protocols that set a field such as can.dlc or flexray.dlc. Is it
> possible with custom columns to get both of these values into one column?

No, only one value can placed in each column.

> In what way does my patch break the dissector API? Basically, this patch adds
> some new values to a typedef. This should not affect any plugins that don't
> expect these values - or am I mistaken? 

Private plugins that aren't updated every time Wireshark comes out with a new
version is released will not see that the value/number of each column has been
offset by new columns and the columns won't display correctly anymore. 


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