Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] It was "the Thing", now is a plugin called mate

[Olivier Jacques <olivier.jacques@xxxxxx>]

LEGO wrote:

> Hi,
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> > If I understand it correct, this will be some kind of user configurable
> > high level dissection?
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> Yes, It does fetch data from other dissectors to create relationships
> between different frames, on which one can  then filter on. What to
> fetch and how to relate the frames comes from the configuration.
>  

Luis, I'm also trying to understand what "mate" does. Can't we better 
define it as a "conversation detector engine"?
From what I understood, The mate allows (with the appropriate 
configuration - but it seems that the configuration allows more) to 
correlate PDUs that belong to one conversation, even if they are not 
using the same protocol.

Is that correct?

Anyway, I'm going to give it a shot.

Olivier.