Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] MySQL dissector

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:03:41 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

That's where conversations come into play. It's related to a IP/port
source/destination pair and contain all kinds of data.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Axel Schwenke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> some weeks ago I started to rewrite the MySQL dissector in order to
> understand the new packets of the MySQL protocol used with MySQL 4.1 and
> above. I will provide a patch soon.
>
> However now I have the following problem: some packets can only be
> dissected properly if one has knowledge about the history of the
> connection (i.e. some filds differ depending on the client/server
> version given in the greeting/login phase). Is there a way to keep
> status information between the packets of a connection? A MySQL
> connection is equivalent to a TCP connection.
>