Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Filtering on proxied ports

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From: Uwe Girlich <Uwe.Girlich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:28:07 +0200
Hello!

> What worries me though is the extra copying. For example, in the NFS example,
> Uwe would use proto_tree_add_item() calls to add the data to the visible
> portion of the tree, and then again for the inivisible, always-searched portion
> of the tree. That's not goo.
The NFS filehandle is a whole sub-tree with many special fields. To copy the
whole sub-tree is really not such a good idea.

> Hmmm, I guess another way would be to mark certain protocols, like "rpc"
> (was it RPC that had the nfs.xxx field?)
No, the mount protocol. But never mind.

Bye, Uwe