Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] improvement proposal for displaying tunneling protocols

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From: <Michal.Melerowicz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:17:53 +0100
Outer src/dst address are overwritten by called IP dissector (at least in GTP case), so addresses should be stored before call starts and restored when it has finished processing. There will be such option in GTP properties to choose between outer and inner ip addresses to display. Thanks for comments.
 
MM
 
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From: ext ETC WAJU [mailto:etcwaju@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:49 PM
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Subject: [Ethereal-dev] improvement proposal for displaying tunneling protocols

Dear developers
In the packets of those tunneling protocols such as GRE, GTP, L2TP, etc, there are two pairs of IP addresses, inner src/dest addresses, and outer src/dest addresses.
 
Right now in Ethereal 0.9.7, the upper display window only show the inner src/dest IP address, it is only possible to see the outer IP address in the lower display window when expanding all the details.
 
To my opinion, it is more important to display the outer src/dest addresses than the inner src/dest addresses, because it can give a quicker view of the tunnel src and dest. So I propose:
 
- In the upper display window, show outer src/dest addresses instead, or
-add another two columns to show outer src/dest addresses which should be put in front of the columns showing inner src/dest addresses
 
Thanks, JW

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