Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-doc] ethereal -G (Protocol and field names)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:19:04 -0800
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:10:16PM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> Which logic should we apply to protocol names and their associated protocol
> field names (especially in situations where protocols implicitly refer to
> other protocols)?

"wap-wsp-wtp", as an Ethereal protocol name, actually refers only to
WTP, and "wap-wsp", as an Ethereal protocol name, actually refers to
WSP, regardless of whether it's running directly over UDP or running over
WTP.

As such, in that particular case, I'd be inclined to rename
"wap-wsp-wtp" to "wtp", because

	1) the registered fields have just "wtp";

	2) people might expect to use "wtp" to filter for WTP packets;

and inclined to rename "wap-wsp" to "wsp", for similar reasons.