[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Guy,

that sounds like a very good idea. I will update the SCTP and 
SIGTRAN/RSerPool
dissectors to make use of the functionality. This helps a lot.

Best regards
Michael

On Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003, at 06:55 Europe/Berlin, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:43:46AM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > In fact SCTP should simply set the wall to be the end of the Info 
> > column
> > after it finishes dissecting each chunk.  Everything living above SCTP
> > acts like it's the owner of the Info column (e.g., clearing/setting 
> > the
> > Info column).
>
> I've checked in code that should implement the notion of a wall,
> although I decided to call it a "fence" instead; there's a new call
> "col_set_fence()", which takes a "column_info *" (typically
> "pinfo->cinfo"), and a column tag (such as COL_INFO), as arguments, and
> sets the fence for that column to the end of the current text in the
> column.
>
> I have not tested it with the fence set anywhere other than the
> beginning of the line.
>
> Give it a try when you have time, and let me know if you find any bugs.