Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] visited,marked flags info

[Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Foster wrote:
> 
> From: Frank Singleton [mailto:frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:57 AM
> 
> > Could anyone tell me where and how the following flags
> > are  used. I am trying to decide if a packet has been visited
> > by clicking on it. Is this the visted flag or are there other
> > meaning for this. And what about "marked".
> 
> The visited flag is set when people click on the packet and is
> unset on the first pass through the data. It was added for just
> the situation you describe.

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

So just to make sure I understand the order of things here.

When I click on a packet, flags.visited is set BEFORE the
packet is processed by my dissector, and not AFTER it has
been processed.Is this true ?

Also, does Reload button clear these flags ?

Cheers / Frank

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