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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4014] ICMP: Add ID and seq # to Info column

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4014

--- Comment #17 from Sake <sake@xxxxxxxxxx> 2010-09-14 14:22:19 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > I think the info column gets a bit messy with this info.
> 
> How about we remove some of the characters to change it from:
> 
>   (id=0x412b, seq(be/le)=1/256, ttl=64)
> 
> To
> 
>   id=0x412b, seq=1/256, ttl=64

+1 for me :-)

> Is the ID of the ICMP packet important enough to display in the info column?  I
> agree about the showing sequence and ttl and possibly other things that a ping
> command shows once it's supported such as response time.

I would vote yes to that question. You can quickly see in the info column which
packets belong to one-another when mutiple pings are in the trace. To me the
representation is unimportant, as long as it's consistent. It does not have a
numerical significance (to me).

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