Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: ability to show protocol field errors

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:29:19 +0200
Hi all,

How about adding a boolean to every protocol field in the protocol tree, so
it would be easy to track protocol errors by just looking at protocol
fields?

The tree view could for example display the following:
! [-] User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 12345 (12345), Dst Port: 23 (telnet)
        Source port: 12345 (12345)
        Destination port: 23 (telnet)
        Length: 14
      ! Checksum: 0xcafe (Incorrect, should be 0xbabe)
      Telnet data

We could also choose to use an italic font and/or color inversion
to highlight errors...

Regards,

Olivier