[Ravid Gabbay <ravid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I'm trying to write a plugin for my purposes, and as I understand, when 
a packet is visited again, the plugin is called again
and all the work needs to be done again. why is that? can that be 
avoided, if nothing will be changed from the initial visit?

my problem is that my plugin assumes that packet n will be dissected 
right after packet n-1, so that in the pluging I can save
in static variables some info from the n-1 packet. and since the plugin 
is called again when the packet is revisited, the n may not always be 
after n-1.
something that will solve my problem is a way to keep packets's info 
(that was set during the first dissection of the packet) valid and 
readabe in the other dissections of the packet. is there a way to do that?

Thanks
Ravid