Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Two patches, packet-q931 and packet-tpkt

[Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:43:31 -0800
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:26:49PM -0500, Ashok Narayanan wrote:
> > Is there a call to have multiple lines in the frame?
> 
> No.
> 
> That's why the problem exists. :-)

Yeah, when I said "call to" I meant "call to arms" as opposed to "call to a C
function". Perhaps a bad choice of words :-)

> > So, for example an encapsulated packet would generate two lines - one for
> > the upper-level packet and one or more for the encapsulated packet(s)?
> 
> (Presumably by "upper-level packet" you mean "lower-level packet".)

That depends on your point of view, I guess :-)

> That wouldn't be the only solution to the problem.
> 
> Another solution would be to have one line for each of the *top-level*
> packets, with all lines past the first probably having blank columns for
> those fields that are per-frame (such as the frame number and the
> addresses).

I suppose; and you would have all of them end up opening the same packet in
the lower two panes? 

-Ashok



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