Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] non-registered things on the proto_tree?

[Mark Atwood <mra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gilbert_Ramirez@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> You can use proto_tree_add_text() to add arbitrary text to the protocol
> tree. You're right, the fields you add this way won't be filterable.
> Remember, you never know when you or someone else may need to filter on a
> particular field. That's what makes Ethereal so handy, compared against
> other protocol analyzers that let you filter on only a few fields.

Yes, but I have a *lot* of potential fields. I have a couple of dozen
(so far) payloads, most of which are an array of a couple of dozen
structs with a couple of dozen elements. That's over ten thousand
potential fields. What will ahppen to ethereal's performance if I
register them all?

My registration function is already starting to get a mite unwieldy.

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