Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.9.2, when? and some other things

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:38:32 -0800
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:50:58PM +0100, Andreas Sikkema wrote:
> When will 0.9.2 be released?

Gerald said

	Unless there are any objections, I'd like to make another
	release in the next few days (around Sunday or Monday).  We
	should probably make --enable-snmp=no the default configure-time
	option as Gilbert suggested.  I'll go ahead and check in a
	change to do that.

in recent mail, so it'll probably come out soon, to provide a release
with the ASN.1 problems found by PROTOS fixed, and SNMP-formatting
problems found by PROTOS worked around.

> I have a question about conversation_set_dissector. When a message 
> from a conversation is being read, is it automatically dissected 
> after TCP/UDP dissection? Or do I need to do something special.

Well, you need to do something special - you need to call
"conversation_set_dissector()" to set the dissector that the TCP or UDP
dissector will call for packets in that conversation.

That should be all you need to do.