Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] IO Graphs cumulative plot

From: "Stig Bjørlykke" <stig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:13:08 +0100
2008/3/5, Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:34:10PM +0100, Stig Bjørlykke wrote:
>
>  > We already have the cumulative number of bytes in the frame dissector
>  > (used for the cumulative column), so it's just a matter of adding this
>  > as a generated frame field.
>
> Do we?  The Cumulative Bytes column is pulled out of
>  pinfo->fd->cum_bytes.

My text should probably be: "in the frame_data struct" :)
But it's easy to add this as a generated frame field.

> Hmm.. what would frame.cum_len > 1000 do wrong?  I guess it depends on if
>  it's cumulative from the beginning of the capture or for displayed
>  packets.  That could get messy.

The cumulative bytes in the frame_data struct is for displayed
packets, which would never be greater than 0 when using this as
filter...

If this should work I suppose we should add yet another cumulative
bytes counter.


-- 
Stig Bjørlykke