Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Decode As in command line interface?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:12:37 -0700
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:56:06AM +0800, Hongwei Kong wrote:
> Sorry to hear that. Maybe this feature can be added later.

I've checked in a modified version of Lionel Ains changes, so it should
be in the next release.

> I think it is very convenient when we need to save the decoded packets
> for further analysis, especially when the data file is very large.

Note, however, that the "Decode As" options aren't saved in the capture
file, so you'd have to use the flag when *reading* the capture with
Tethereal.

(The next generation of libpcap format, if, as, and when those of
us who've been thinking about it on occasion, might have a mechanism to
allow arbitrary applications to put their own data in the file, in ways
that don't bother other applications; if so, one thing
Ethereal/Tethereal could put in there would be a "Decode As" table.)