Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Adding options to conversations in Ethereal during run time

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:55:01 -0800
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:00:32AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> It would be useful if you could click on a packet, and add information to 
> the conversation. It would be useful if you could set the RPC type for 
> example, or specify the password for SMB stuff as I mentioned.
> 
> This is going to require more infrastructure,

Presumably the infrastructure to which you're referring would be a way
for a dissector to specify items of user-settable per-conversation
information, along the lines of the way it can specify preferences, as
we already have the ability to attach per-protocol data to
conversations.