Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] How to spot invalid checksum packets on COL_IN FO
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From: Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:18:21 -0000
And here's a version with the checksum checking in. -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -----Original Message----- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 November 2002 08:29 To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] How to spot invalid checksum packets on COL_IN FO This is a very good idea. I have a set of basic colour filters that have been posted to the list previously. They would make a good basis for this standard. TCP has a blue background (more intense for broadcasts) UDP has a green background (more intense for broadcasts) MS base protocols have a sandy background SSL has a red (ok, pink :-) background Name resolution protocols (ARP,DNS,NBNS) have a green foreground HTTP has a blue foreground FTP has a purple foreground MS related protocols have a brown foreground At the time I created these filters I also made some comments about the user interface which may have some bearing on why they are not being used: "In doing this I found that the existing facilities didn't help me much, I have a handfull of post-it notes covered with numbers that had to be labouriously typed into the edit fields (which don't select-all on focus acquisition either.) Also, when this is used in the field I imagine that these colour settings are going to be corrupted (by user fiddling) fairly frequently. So might I offer a couple of items for the wish list? 1. A "Copy From (other filter)" button for the colours. 2. On startup, read a colorfilters file from the system path in addition to the user colourfilters file. Apply filters in this (system) file after (ie with lower priority than) the filters in the user file. No support is necessary to create this file, a knowledgable user can copy the file there. It is not necessary to ship a default system file with Ethereal. (sic) (Later I'm sure we'll start asking for interleaving filters and support for the system file. But we don't need it for the moment.)" -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -----Original Message----- From: Ronnie Sahlberg [mailto:ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 November 2002 07:40 To: jafour1@xxxxxxxxx; Michael Tuexen Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How to spot invalid checksum packets on COL_INFO I find a lot of users are not aware of that color-filters exist at all. Maybe we should start providing some default color-filters with the distribution of ethereal. This might get people to spot that : "hey some lines are marked red, I wounder why and how they got red, hey color-filters cool ill start using them for lots of useful stuff." Could we add a color-filter to the default ethereal distribution that flags all ip/udp/tcp checksums with a red background for the next release. Probably we could use a lot of other default color filters as well ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Tuexen" Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How to spot invalid checksum packets on COL_INFO > to find packets with incorrect checksum I'm using a Colorize > Filter to display the packets in red, for example. For me > that is very efficient. > _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list Ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
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