Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] reconizing direction

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:17:36 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Guy Harris wrote:

> Jaap Keuter wrote:
>
> > see packet_info.h
> > #define P2P_DIR_UNKNOWN   -1
> > #define P2P_DIR_SENT      0
> > #define P2P_DIR_RECV      1
>
> That's the link-layer direction, and isn't present on non-point-to-point
> links, e.g. it's not meaningful on Ethernet or other broadcast LANs
> (it's set to P2P_DIR_UNKNOWN on them).

True, but this is the only directional information I know of in Ethereal,
apart from creating a conversation and communicating through that.

Thanx,
Jaap