Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] preference tree for SS7

["Luis Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/26/07, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I finally had a chance to look at the new feature from revision 21066:
> >
> > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.py?view=rev&revision=21066
> >
> > and see what it looks like if I put, say, all the SS7 dissectors'
> > preferences in one preference tree called "SS7".  The result was a
> > little startling: I was able to put *21* dissectors' preferences in that
> > category:
> >
> > ALCAP, ANSI BSMAP, ANSI MAP, BSSAP, BSSGP, CAMEL, GSM SMS UD, GSM_MAP,
> > INAP, ISUP, isup_thin, IUA, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, MTP2, MTP3, SCCP, SUA,
> > TALI, TCAP
> >
> > It looks good to me because I tend to think hierarchically and because I
> > don't like how long the current list of dissectors with preferences is
> > (too much scrolling before I find the one I want).
> >
> > What does anyone else (especially signaling users) think?  Any objections?
> >
>
> There are both reasons for and against it.
>
> I'll agree that the current list is pretty long and I tend to like it to be hierarchical as well.
>
> The drawback is: You'll have to know to search for protocol xy under SS7 (BTW: is this basically the same as http://wiki.wireshark.org/SIGTRAN ?). This might be obvious for frequent protocol user, but makes it probably more complicated for newbies (like me :-).

Whether SIGTRAN belongs to SS7 or just complements it or supersedes it
is a perfect example of an endless categorization discussion.

SIGTRAN is a set of protocols to have SS7 run over IP.

> So if we want to group protocols, we should group (at least) most protocols, to have the protocol list length dastically reduced.


> Maybe the current Protocol Family overview http://wiki.wireshark.org/ProtocolReference could work as a guideline to sort protocols into such groups.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
> P.S: Some time ago, I've tried grouping some of the protocols in the menu structure, and immediately got objections from other developers against "my grouping" thoughts - so this discussion might become very controverse ;-)
> P.P.S: Will the packet tree context "Protocol Preferences ..." still work with this? This feature is pretty useful!
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