Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Protocol tree and Frame colorization

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:10:03 +1000
At 02:59 PM 3/16/00 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
>How hard would be to implement colorization for the Protocol Tree and
>for RAW Packet Frame ?
>The idea is that would be nice to colorize the Protocol Tree and the RAW
>frame based on OSI Layers information.

We don't like no steenkin' OSI model 'round here :-)

>For instance:
>the Ethernet II encapsulation = Layer 2 = some color
>the IP encapsulation = Layer 3 = some other color
>the TCP or UPD header = another color
>etc.
>and in the RAW frame output the same colorization.
>
>An sample eth.jpg is attached. (Warning : I am not good @ gimp :)
>
>
>
>Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\eth.jpg"
>

Regards
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