Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] suggested feature...

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 07:37:14 -0500
I use sniffers and I can tell you that it doesn't show the protocols that
aren't selected.  I like this feature and would like to see it implimented.

Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Guy Harris [SMTP:gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:32 AM
> To:	Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc:	'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx'
> Subject:	Re: [ethereal-dev] suggested feature...
> 
> > One nice feature of Sniffer Pro is that is the ability to pick and
> choose
> > which protocols are going to be dissected - i.e. you can tell it to
> ignore a
> > protocol, even though it knows how to pick it apart.
> 
> What does it do when it ignores a protocol?  Just do its equivalent of
> dissecting it with "dissect_data()"?