Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:45:51 -0700
On Oct 7, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Martin Kaiser wrote:

> Thus wrote Guy Harris (guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx):

(At this point, I really wish my name were Zarathustra. :-))

> I've been
> playing with a new port_type PT_DVBCI_SESSION_NUMBER and set both source
> and destination port to the session number. Does that make sense or is
> there a better approach?

The ""circuits" for protocols that have a virtual circuit ID of some sort" was based on an existing mechanism in Wireshark, which I put there originally for the benefit of the Frame Relay dissector, and later used in X.25 and elsewhere; see epan/circuit.h and routines using it.  It sounds as if DVB-CI has what amounts to a VC ID, the session number.