Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] filters for ethereal?

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From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:37:45 -0800
> Also, instead of having a decoder map, I would prefer a hierarchical
> decoding API, with a top level "ethernet" (or whatever fisical layer)
> decoder, which calls other modules, recursively.  This would deal
> easily with encapsulated protocols, for example.

I'm not sure I follow. What would that kind of hierarchy look like? If I
have ppp and tr and fddi and ethernet trees, would they all have their
own IP sub-trees?

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