Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Per-context protocol preferences

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Have a look at UAT's for dissector preferences. That could be made to work.

Thanks,
Jaap

On 09/11/2012 04:17 PM, Chris Elston wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I'd like to raise a point mentioned in
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7711 for wider
> discussion.
>
> Some background: the patch attached to the bugzilla entry adds
> auto-detection of some L2TPv3 protocol settings to the l2tp dissector.
>
> These settings are detected on a per (l2tp) session basis, so different
> sessions within a capture may have differing settings for these protocol
> settings.
>
> The detected settings may be overridden by the user by setting protocol
> preferences. When they do so the setting is overidden for _all_
> sessions.
>
> It would be good if there were a way for the user to override the
> detected settings for just one of these session contexts. Perhaps a
> dissector could say "I have found these<X>  contexts, and they have
> <these>  settings associated with them".  The GUI would then provide a
> way to set the values associated with the contexts.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Chris.