Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to expose OPC/DPC from MTP3, SCCP preferences

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From: "Michael Lum" <mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:04:57 -0800
Guy could you give me the name of file that I could reference
for solution number 2 ?

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:37 PM
> To: mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ethereal
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to expose OPC/DPC from MTP3, SCCP
> preferences
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 1, 2003, at 1:12 PM, Michael Lum wrote:
> 
> > cvs diff -u from latest source:
> >
> > packet-mtp3.h.diff
> > 	Externs for opc/dpc
> 
> Better ways of doing that might be
> 
> 	1) hand a data structure to the SCCP dissector with those 
> values, by 
> setting "pinfo->private_data" to point to that data structure;
> 
> 	2) setting the source and destination network-layer 
> addresses in the 
> "packet_info" structure to refer to those values, giving them a new AT_ 
> type, and having the SCCP dissector get them from there (that'd mean 
> you'd have to add support for displaying addresses of that sort in the 
> address columns - but adding that support might be considered a good 
> thing).