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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFE: Adding graphical "tcp stream" view to ethereal ?

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From: Jason House <jhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:38:44 -0500
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:11:12PM +0100, J.Smith wrote:
> > I was just wondering if it would at all be possible or considered desirable
> > to add a graphical tcp stream view to ethereal
> 
> That might be useful.
> 
> > (perhaps in the "follow tcp stream" view),
> 
> However, I don't see those two as related - I'd see it being another
> item.
> 
> In fact, this might be a useful thing for somebody to implement with a
> tap.

I agree that the new feature should be a tap listener.  The "follow tcp
stream" would be implemented as a tap listener if it was created today.  
I think the idea is that the ability to execute a tap listener for the
specific session (that the user has already found a packet of) would be
useful regardless of which tcp tap listener (or tap-like feature) it is.

When more tcp tap listeners are created it might be useful to add
sub-options to "follow tcp stream"... items like "view payload as text",
"filter for session packets", "TCP trace (packetyzer)", "Retransmission
and Delay Statistics", etc...
While the same taps might be found elsewhere, it might be convenient to
have a less generic configuration interface for quick viewing of
information about the particular TCP session...

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