Would it make sense to (also?) add a preference setting to the SDP dissector
indicating whether or not RTCP conversations should be created? H.245 and
RTSP specify the RTCP port explicity so wouldn't need such an option.
Disabling RTCP altogether seems maybe a drastic way to achieve what you
want.
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruud Linders" <moztest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 03 July 2004 18:04
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to prevent rtp/rtcp to register
conversationwhen disabled
>
>
> Here is a patch (against nightly build 2004-07-02) to prevent both
> RTCP and RTP to create conversations when the respective protocols
> are disabled.
>
> It solves for me the problem that in packet-sdp.c the function
> rtp_add_address(... srcport ...) is blindly followed by
> rtCp_add_address(..srcport+1...).
> Since the SDP decoder can't now if RTCP is present or not, that
> seems to be the only way to create a conversation for RTCP.
> (IFF RTCP is present, it IS at the RTP port + 1)
>
> However, in my trace there were no RTCP but instead RTP packets
> at the srcport+1 which were subsequently decoded wrongly as RTCP.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ruud Linders
>
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> --- packet-rtcp.c.20040702 2004-06-30 23:08:58.000000000 +0200
> +++ packet-rtcp.c 2004-07-03 18:38:57.000000000 +0200
> @@ -248,6 +248,13 @@
> struct _rtcp_conversation_info *p_conv_data = NULL;
>
> /*
> + * If protocol isn't enabled, we shouldn't create a conversation
> + */
> + if (!proto_is_protocol_enabled(find_protocol_by_id(proto_rtcp))) {
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> * If this isn't the first time this packet has been processed,
> * we've already done this work, so we don't need to do it
> * again.
> --- packet-rtp.c.20040702 2004-07-01 08:59:38.000000000 +0200
> +++ packet-rtp.c 2004-07-03 18:40:31.000000000 +0200
> @@ -203,6 +203,13 @@
> struct _rtp_conversation_info *p_conv_data = NULL;
>
> /*
> + * If protocol isn't enabled, we shouldn't create a conversation
> + */
> + if (!proto_is_protocol_enabled(find_protocol_by_id(proto_rtp))) {
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> * If this isn't the first time this packet has been processed,
> * we've already done this work, so we don't need to do it
> * again.
>
>
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