Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Are user decodes persisted?
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From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:26:24 -0800
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:50:46PM -0000, Douglas Pratley wrote:

> Does anyone know whether or not "User Decodes" are persisted between 
> Wireshark sessions? As far as I can tell they are not. I'm working on 
> extending some of the "Decode As" functionality and it actually makes 
> my life easier in the short term if I don't have to update persistence 
> functionality to be consistent...

The user decodes are not saved between Wireshark sessions.  The closest 
you can get to such functionality is with certain dissectors that allow 
you to specify an alternate port to decode as (for example HTTP, VNC, 
etc.)


Steve