Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: nettl (HP-UX) enhancements

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:18:14 -0400
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:57:42 -0500, "Mark C. Brown" <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Issues with this new dissector and associated patch?
> 
> Mark C. Brown wrote:
> 
> > New nettl "protocol" dissector to format nettl trace record
> > header fields: subsystem, trace kind, device id, process id
> > (actually kernel thread id for 10.X and later), and user id.
> > Uses new nettl "pseudo" header with trace record specific
> > fields which are not really "protocol" related but are part
> > of each trace record.  This approach was much less invasive
> > than a more elegant solution requiring changes to the wiretap
> > API.
> >
> > Enhanced nettl file handling so that files with unsupported
> > subsystem records are just flagged as "unknown" and
> > file loading continues rather than throwing an error and
> > stopping.
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
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