On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:00:24PM +0200, Sake Blok wrote:
> Is there a way to keep some state-information per packet? I don't know
> exactly what is kept in the conversations, but I guess that it is on a
> flow basis, not on a packet basis. Are there any other protocols where
> dissection depends on a per-packet state? How do they do that?
Yes, you can store data "in" each packet. See doc/README.developer,
section 2.5. Search for the functions mentioned in the readme, either
p_add_proto_data or p_get_proto_data, to find a dissector that uses it.
By the way, thanks for working on this bug in the SSL dissector.
Steve
