Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Conversations and Sessions

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 13:29:53 +0200
Hi all,
 
When looking at why conversations have been included in Ethereal development, I assume that their sole intention is to ease packet dissection. The conversation logic does not intend to deal with protocol-layer sessions... yet?
Wouldn't it be useful to have functions like conversation_add_session(), conversation_get_session(), and same for session data storage and retrieval?
BTW I noticed that conversation selection happens by computing a hash on the address, not on the address itself. Although a private exact match function exists, but it is only called when a new capture file is loaded.
 
Regards,
 
Olivier