Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request - Follow UDP Stream

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:44:05 +0200
| From: Ian Schorr
| Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request - Follow UDP Stream
| 
| Best guess?
| 
| I'd assume that under most cases, the topmost layer 
| information (or the 
| topmost layer that contains a "follow xx conversation" 
| option) would be 
| the most "likely" set of information that the user would want 
| to use to 
| identify a conversation.  This obviously won't be correct 100% of the 
| time, therefore it would make sense to also allow a "Follow 
| conversation" option when selecting an individual protocol 
| line within 
| the decoded packet in the middle pane.
| 
| Ian

This is precisely what I want :) Sometimes a frame pertains to more than one
conversation, and sometimes the conversation code bundles transport (e.g.,
when using NO_PORT_2), and this may or may not be the required level of
granularity for a given investigation. Perhaps it makes sense to give the
user some more information on the type of conversation (like NO_PORT_2 etc),
so s/he knows what is to be expected.

Regards,

Olivier