Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Protocol hierarchy

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:38:37 +0100
Hi list,

The protocol hierarchy statistic considers every *protocol* line in the
"tree view" (middle panel) as a protocol layer. As a result, an X11 capture
appears as X11 over X11 over X11 over X11 over ... over X11, which is
neither correct nor interesting. I however fear that there is no mechanism
today enabling us to distinguish between PDU concatenation and protocol
duplication (e.g., IPv4 over IPv4) as the latter is always assumed.

Maybe we can add this information to the packet_info structure as
parent_proto and sibling_proto pointers? Or are there simpler schemes?

Regards,

Olivier