Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SCTP analysis (similar to tcp.analysis stuff)

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you are right. I mixed the stuff up. So the right place would be  
the dissector.

Jeff, so do you think that it would be useful?

Best regards
Michael

On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> Michael Tuexen wrote:
>
>
> > But I think (maybe I'm wrong) is that the sequence number  
> > analysis  was developed earlier than the tap stuff.
> > And the other thing is that the sequence number stuff is not link   
> > layer independent like it would be it
> > it done via taps.
>
> To which sequence number analysis are you referring?
>
> I was referring to the analysis the results of which show up in the  
> protocol tree, which is the one that detects retransmissions,  
> duplicate ACKs, etc.; that code is link-layer independent, as it's  
> done in the dissector.
>
> It sounds as if you're talking about the TCP graphs, which aren't  
> link-layer independent (and which should be redone as a tap to make  
> it link-layer independent).
>
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