Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 3998] tshark with a read filter of smb.response_in does no

Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:14:40 +0000

Comment # 3 on bug 3998 from
(In reply to comment #1)
> TShark is, by design and intent, a single-pass program - it moves forward
> through the packets and, once it's dissected a packet, it never looks at it
> again.
> 
> This makes it impossible for it to fill in the "smb.response_in" field, as
> you note:
> 
>     Maybe this is an issue with all derived information where the next
> packet is
> needed to populate the derived information for the Request?

Update: newer versions of tshark (starting with 1.8) do have a 2 pass
capability which does allow this type of query.

(However, there appears to be a bug: See Bug #8316)


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