Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How to reassemble split TCP Packets - to grouptogether with

From: "Tamas Somogyi" <tsomogyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:08:00 +0100
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:14:20PM +0100, Tamas Somogyi wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to fill the info column with a complete description on all
> > the contained messages.
> 
> What about using a conversation to store data for the entire session?
> For example, the (r)exec dissector that I wrote a while back displays
> the username and program being run (both can be enabled or disabled
with
> only the username on by default) in the info column of every packet of
> the session, so you can tell which packet belongs to which user's
> session.

Hmmm... I'm not familiar with conversations in Wireshark and how to
apply in my case - according to the Users Guide, it gives some
statistics on the entire session. However I'd like to display info which
is related to the belonging packet only - e.g. the number of contained
messages:

No.|Time|Source|Destination|Protocol|Info
  1|0.00|192.x |192.y      |foo     |3 Foo Messages
  2|0.01|192.x |192.y      |foo     |2 Foo Messages
  3|0.02|192.x |192.y      |foo     |1 Foo Message
...