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Re: Conversation tracking
From: Tobias Weiss <tweiss () ra rockwell com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:30:03 -0400
Right now I'm puzzled: I wanted to use conversation tracking in order to save information about the state of the communication across packet dissection. The dissector is called completely out of order (which is reasonable) but I get always the same conversation, even when dissecting an older packet than the last one. So saving the state of the communication is completely pointless if the same conversation is used for dissecting random packets. Here is an example just in case you don't understand my possibly weird English ;-) I have a stream of 10 packets and something interesting was send in packet number 3. Now I want to save this information in the conversations data in order to reuse it when dissecting future packets. But the dissector is called randomly (which is ok) but always with the same conversation (which is absolutely not ok in this case). I simply cannot rely on the saved information. So how am I supposed to use conversation tracking in a sane way (as far as I can see I can't _track_ anything)??? Tobi Tobias Weiss <tweiss () ra rockwell com> Sent by: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org 05/10/2012 06:03 PM Please respond to Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> To Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> cc Subject Re: [Wireshark-dev] Conversation tracking Section 2.2.3 (The example conversation code using se_alloc'd memory) from the trunk. Tobi Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com> Sent by: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org 05/10/2012 05:59 PM Please respond to Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> To Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> cc Subject Re: [Wireshark-dev] Conversation tracking ---- On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:54:44 -0600 Tobias Weiss wrote ----
Thanks, this is working just fine. But in that case I suggest an update to README.developer as I copied the
buggy source-code from there. Which section(s) were you copying the source code from? ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: Conversation tracking Stephen Fisher (May 10)
- Re: Conversation tracking Tobias Weiss (May 10)
- Re: Conversation tracking Stephen Fisher (May 10)
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- Re: Conversation tracking Tobias Weiss (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Jeff Morriss (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking RUOFF, LARS (LARS) (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Tobias Weiss (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Evan Huus (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Evan Huus (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Tobias Weiss (May 14)
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- Re: Conversation tracking ronnie sahlberg (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Tobias Weiss (May 14)
- Re: Conversation tracking Stephen Fisher (May 10)
- Re: Conversation tracking Stephen Fisher (May 11)
- Re: Conversation tracking Stephen Fisher (May 11)