Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] IPv6 over MPLS coding

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From: "Jeff Jahr" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:41:49 -0800
On Wednesday, November 07, 2001 1:12 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>> That would be done with a preferences item for MPLS.
>
>However, you could have a mix of protocols within a capture file.
>A menu item could provide a default, but I think some decision
>on a packet-by-packet basis is needed. My patch (to detect IPv6)
>is not an ideal solution but is an improvement over just
>assuming IPv4.

I agree.  The default ought to be settable in the prefs, but it
would be nice to be able to change to a different decode 'on
the fly' from, say, a popup.  It would be doubly good if that
pop-up could set the decode preferences on individual packets,
and the preference choice was retained with the packet for the
lifetime of the decode session.

Something like a 'single packet preference override' would be 
useful.  It could work exactly the same as the current prefs,
but instead of referencing the global set, it would use a
set that was associated just with that packet.  

Thoughts?

-jsj