Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Protocol Hierarchy

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:18:41 -0800
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:35:01PM +0200, sting sting wrote:
> what is the meaning of "Protocol Hierarchy" in ethereal ?
> (I mean tools->"protocol hierarchy statistics")?
> 
> Why,for example, "ICMP" appears under "User Datagram Protocol ?  ("UDP")

Because that's how the protocols are sorted.  It's "under" it
vertically, but it's not "under" it in the sense of being underneath it
in the statistics tree - it's at the same level (i.e., it's not saying
that ICMP is encapsulated inside UDP).