Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Creating a stable branch

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:03:26 -0600
ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> On 3/15/06, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The tcp analysis code rewrite is only 30% complete, at best.
> 
> Before the next stage when fixing pdu tracking properly, and also as a
> sideeffect fixing reassembly of out-of-order segments to work, we
> first needed a good and efficient storage and search api (se_tree_t).
> Before the next step can be implemented we do need to add something like
> se_tree_lookup32_less_than_or_equal()
> or something like it   to more efficiently be able to track what
> segments are part of an existing pdu or not.

Would it be feasible to copy the TCP analysis rewrite from the trunk to
the 0.99/1.0 branch periodically, as shown in my response to Ulf?