Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Question

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

First of all, if your dissector does what's required there's no need for
all that fancy stuff. However, if there are aspects of the protocol you
cannot display at this moment they may be of help.
Conversations are usefull when you want to register information with a
source and destination address/post pair. This could be some additonal
data on the exchange going on or even a dissector. You can read more about
it in the README.developer section 2.2

Enjoy,
Jaap

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, fabio matturro wrote:

> A hard question : )
>
> My problem is as follows:
>
> I'm building a dissector and I've come to a point where I don't know what
> else I could do.
> I mean, the only thing my dissector does is to dissect the payload carried
> over UDP.
> The work should be finished, so. But looking at other dissectors I see
> stuctures I've not used yet and would like to. that's the case of
> conversation structures and functions.
> What is the use of a conversation? Can you tell me an example? Why should I
> use it?
>