Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-smb.c:11327 - si->info_level = t2i->info_level

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:51:32 -0800
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:53:53PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> As i stated earlier,
> tethereal is stateful, i.e. in order to dissect quite a lot of different
> protocols it must remember stuff between packets.

Of course, if you're just using "-w" and not using a read filter, it
doesn't bother dissecting the packets.

Unfortunately, I think he's *not* using "-w", but is piping the text
output of Tethereal to some flavor of grep, so it does have to dissect
the packets.