Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] C't article

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 23:16:58 -0600 (EST)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Guy Harris wrote:

> Interesting.  Any suggestions for a "default" color-coding scheme?

  DECnet: Chinese red (the color of those old VMS manuals)
  SNA: Blue
  RPC/NFS/NIS: The purply lavender color that Sun uses
  AppleTalk: Can GTK+ render rainbow-colored text?

What if we were to use background colors to specify lower-level protocols
(e.g. IP, IPX, and AppleTalk)?  Foreground colors could be used
accordingly for upper-level protocols.