Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Conversations and continuations screwing up

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:04 PM 12/20/99 -0800, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>An alternative might be to provide a mechanism by which dissectors can
>attach information to a frame if necessary; the information attached to
>the frame would probably take less memory than a full protocol tree,
>and, in many cases, no information would need to be attached to the
>frame.

Yes, I had begun to think of this. It might be useful.

Regards
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