Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How to pass file info along with a packet

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Moore wrote:
> I’d like to pass some information about a file along with a packet.  I 
> am currently using a pseudo header to do so.  This works ok during the 
> sequential read through the file, but doesn’t with seek and read.

It does if you return the pseudo-header in the seek-and-read routine, 
which you're supposed to do; the seek_read routines in Wireshark take a 
"union wtap_pseudo_header *" as one of the arguments.

This is, by the way, more of a wireshark-dev topic than a 
wireshark-users topic.