Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How is HTTP desegmentation supposed to work?

["Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>From Ulf Lamping:

| Guy Harris wrote:
|
| If it's a preference setting only because in case of a problem you
| can switch if off, why is the default to off?

I think there is a historic reason for this.

| I was thinking, that this is disabled for performance reasons. If
| it's not significantly the case, I would really vote to enable all
| the desegmentation/reassembly stuff by default.

I would go one step further, and provide a dialog similar to the
"enabled protocols" for controlling reassembly. Maybe we should add a
proto_register_reassemble_preference() method with a signature like
proto_register_bool_preference() in order to access those settings?

| I've often talked to novice Ethereal user's, which didn't know that
| there's TCP segments out there, and of course didn't know about such
| an option to switch it on.

That's correct.

Maybe we should offer a set of profiles "optimize for speed (no
reassembly)" and "optimize for information (reassembly)"?

Best regards,

Olivier