Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Add PDML output to ethereal

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

|From: Gilbert Ramirez
|
|On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:54, Biot Olivier wrote:
|> Hi list,
|>
|> Today we can only produce PDML output in tethereal (with the -Tpdml
|> command-line option). I guess it is not that complicated to 
|add support for
|> PDML output in Ethereal, unless I ignore the consequences of packet
|> reassembly?
|>
|
|No, it would not be difficult. SInce PDML output is 
|implemented as a print 
|output style, the easiest and most straight-forward approach 
|would be to add 
|this option to the print dialogue.
|
|However, I wonder if that's not the best UI decision... do 
|users expect PDML 
|output to be selected from "File | Save As" ? Of course, they 
|serve different 
|purposes... saving as a different file format saves just the 
|packet data, not 
|the dissection, whereas the printing function prints the 
|packet dissection.

I only have one question on the now available PDML output in Ethereal (not
tethereal): the offsets and lengths of the displayed protocol fields won't
make much sense in a *reassembled* packet. Do we need to deal with this in
some way?

Fulvio, what's your position/opinion on this?

Regards,

Olivier