|From: Gilbert Ramirez
|
|On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:54, Biot Olivier wrote:
|> Hi list,
|>
|> Today we can only produce PDML output in tethereal (with the -Tpdml
|> command-line option). I guess it is not that complicated to
|add support for
|> PDML output in Ethereal, unless I ignore the consequences of packet
|> reassembly?
|>
|
|No, it would not be difficult. SInce PDML output is
|implemented as a print
|output style, the easiest and most straight-forward approach
|would be to add
|this option to the print dialogue.
|
|However, I wonder if that's not the best UI decision... do
|users expect PDML
|output to be selected from "File | Save As" ? Of course, they
|serve different
|purposes... saving as a different file format saves just the
|packet data, not
|the dissection, whereas the printing function prints the
|packet dissection.
I only have one question on the now available PDML output in Ethereal (not
tethereal): the offsets and lengths of the displayed protocol fields won't
make much sense in a *reassembled* packet. Do we need to deal with this in
some way?
Fulvio, what's your position/opinion on this?
Regards,
Olivier