Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4070] Add a facility within wireshark to remove duplicate
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4070
--- Comment #10 from Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-11-30 12:03:33 MST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Good tip, although as I understand it, this will only catch exact duplicates,
> i.e., frames with all data exactly the same, even timestamps, right? As Jaap
> pointed out in comment #3, if there are many duplicates due to ingress+egress,
> then timestamps might differ slightly, so the md5 hashes will also be
> different, even though for all practical purposes, those frames are still
> really duplicates.
The timestamps are stored in the capture file instead of the packet's data, but
this sort of issue recently led me to commit SVN revision 34245, which provides
a preference to generate an MD5 hash of the payload in the data dissector for
something I was working on.
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