What is the best way to create a stateful dissector?

[Kenny Ho <kho () vixs com>]

Hi,

I am writing my first dissector and it needs to dissect a packet base on some information in previous packets.  The 
protocol also allows multiple of these stream mux together.  What is the best way to create a stateful dissector?  From 
the dev guide, I notice there are two different mechanisms that is "stateful" - the tap and the "conversation".  From 
what I can tell, tap seems to be for post-processing of stats only.  So is the "conversation" mechanism the best way to 
implement a stateful dissector?  Did I miss any some other mechanism?

Regards,
Kenny Ho

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