Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] [patch] Small patch for flow graph feature for SS7 nodes

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From: "Jacques, Olivier (OCBU-Test Infra)" <olivier.jacques@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:37:41 +0100
> This indicates that perhaps the model of "data link layer" 
> and "network layer" addresses isn't sufficient.  Perhaps we 
> need to generalize that model.
> 
> One possibility would be to have "stacks" of source and 
> destination addresses, with calls to find, searching downward 
> from the top of the stack, the first address:

I would backup the idea of stack as "popping" from the stack will
retrieve the highest level address.
Some features, like flowgraph, could be updated to select which address
level has to be used.
Another argument is that you can't really decide - because it depends on
the situation - whether in an SS7 over IP environment it's best to show
IP addresses or SS7 (whatever layer) addresses.
I'm not entirely clear on where and how the new functions should be
implemented but at least I can provide my help for testing.

Olivier.