Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] more leap stuff

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From: Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:24:33 -0500 (EST)
> > Haven't had time to figure what the global variables in it are doing,
> > and whether the are really necessary.
>
> Global variables cannot work as inter-packet communication mechanisms,
> as there is no guarantee that, after the first pass through the capture
> file, packets will be processed in any particular order.  The user can
> randomly click on packets if they choose.

I'm not sure if you noticed this but this would apply for "top level"
packets. This being "RADIUS" here. sub-tree packets will not be processed
until tree will be expanded. EAP sub protocol would fall into such
category.

-- 
Adam
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