Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Several conversations

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Piercy wrote:

> I've come across a couple of occasions where it would have been nice to 
> include an arbitrary (say 32 bit) "sub-conversation" id to distinguish 
> between multiple conversations between the same transport endpoints. The 
> use I had in mind was for protocols which provide multiple endpoints to 
> their higher layers whilst using a single transport endpoint below, and 
> you wish to track the conversations within those higher layer endpoints.
>
> I've not got round to doing anything about it (yet), but would this be a 
> good thing to add to the existing conversations, or add a new API along 
> side the existing ones ?

A "sub-conversation" scheme such as that would probably be useful.  It'd 
involve new APIs in any case.