Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Redesign of the WHOLE Ethereal main menu

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:29:35 -0800
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:20:53PM -0800, Blue Boar wrote:
> Guy Harris wrote:
> > Sometimes the state needed to dissect a packet doesn't come from other
> > packets in the same TCP segment, even if the protocol in question
> > happens to be running atop TCP (which, as per "Won't work for UDP, I
> > suppose", isn't necessarily the case).
> 
> Strange.  Like what?  DNS names?

FTP data traffic might not be identified as such without previous FTP
control traffic.  There might be other examples either now or in the
future.