Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] TDS decoding

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From: Brian Bruns <camber@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 16:52:30 -0500 (EST)
Okay, newbie ethereal developer question time again, but I'm just not 
gleaning what I need from the sources.  

In TDS a particular PDU may start in one netlib wrapper and finish in 
another.  In order to keep sane the dissector needs to track where it is 
from one packet to the next.  As I understand it this is part of what the 
conversation stuff does for me correct?  Anyone care to give a quick 
primer on how to use conversations to do this?  Also does it handle 
retransmits/out of order packets or am I barking up the wrong tree?  TDS 
is ever so susceptible to these things. 

Brian