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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Is there a good way of handling "per pdu" info ?

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:29:57 -0700
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:05:38PM -0000, Neil Piercy wrote:

> I know there is per-packet info, but is there a way of
> adding/retrieving per PDU info which copes with multiple PDUs in a
> packet ? How does a dissector even know if it is handfling the first,
> second etc PDU in a packet ?

This has been requested before, but has not been implemented to date in
Wireshark.  A workaround you can use is to use a linked list from GLib
(which has a nice easy interface to them) and store that in the per
packet info.  Each item in your list would correspond to a different
PDU.

One of us should get around to implementing per-pdu packet info in
Wireshark itself.  It wouldn't be too difficult.  All we need is spare
time :)


Steve