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

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From: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:35:43 -0500
I believe what it does is that if you have POP ignored, it will decode all
the way down to TCP, but won't go any further. Similar effect if you were to
ignore TCP/UDP/etc.

It's not extremely useful, but in some cases, can be handy. I can't think of
one at the moment, but I know I've used it in the past. 

I think that's equivalent to what you've said below. 

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:33 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()"?
>