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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] displaying multiple pdu's in one packet as multiple packets

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:13:01 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

I didn't want to imply that low level information is to be presented
there, it's just that the entity displayed there is a frame, which may
(and in the case at hand does not) match a single top level PDU.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Guy Harris wrote:

>
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 3:42 AM, Jaap Keuter wrote:
>
> > Well, it's a problem for every transport protocol, TCP (stream) and
> > UDP
> > (datagram) I've seen this on.
> > Not sure what to do. I would like the summary pane to display a
> > summary
> > of the _frame_ (lowest level entity) captured at that instance in
> > time.
>
> If I'm trying to figure out an HTTP or NFS or SMB or... problem, I'd
> want to see the summary line present HTTP/NFS/SMB/etc. information,
> not Ethernet/802.11/PPP/... information.
>
> If somebody wants an option to show the lowest level information in
> the summary line, fine - but I'll turn that option off in my
> preferences.