Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] conversation wildcard entry

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:41:29 -0500
per Guy Harris:
> > Checked in.
> 
> I redid the way wildcards are handled - you have to try wildcarding both
> the source *and* destination port and/or both the source *and*
> destination address passed to "find_conversation()", because the packet
> for which you're trying to find the conversation may be going in the
> opposite direction to the packet for which the conversation was
> originally created.

Thanks for the fixes, I missed the two hash lookups with source and
destination because of the different hash values. 

I have started to document usage of this in the README.developer update
I am working on.  I hope to have that done later this week.


Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx