Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Resend: Another new feature for Ethereal.

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:51:04 +1000
I dont know what overlap there might be.

My version is just really the same thing as tethereal -z io,users,... does
but just presented as
a clist that can be sordet by column.
I plan to enhance it to allow you to select one "conversation" and tell the
main window in ethereal to apply a displayfilter that only matches the
selected "conversation".

I appologize if my ignoranze of Greg's patch mistakenly thought his patch
was also just a tethereal -z io,users, clist.



One thing in the first patch i was not comfortable with was that it accessed
wiretap directly and is thus exposed to
the cap file encapsulation and the link layers instead of using the tap
system.
I will look into his patch and see what i missed in my ignorance.

If they provide different featuresets, lets just get both of them in, the
more the merrier.


what additional features than just a gui version of -z io,users,... does
Greg's patch provide?


best regards
    ronnie sahlberg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris"
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Resend: Another new feature for Ethereal.


> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:56:32AM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> > Unfortunately there is some duplication of work in this area.
> > I completed a very similar feature during my travels that will create a
> > clist of all "conversations".
>
> So does your stuff implement all the same stuff Greg's does?  If not,
> how hard would it be to implement that atop your stuff?
>
> > Though it does not use the conversation mechanism in ehtereal.
>
> One problem with using it is that they're created "on demand", and it's
> hard for the "demand" to come from outside.
>