Hi everyone,
I want to put short notes and commentary into traces as they are being
captured:
(time, src/dest etc normal stuff) (in info area:) starting
doing something-or-other
(normal capture; lots of packets)
(normal stuff for packet) more things
I want to note as they happen
(normal capture; lots of packets)
(normal stuff for packet) ended doing
something-or-other
(normal stuff for packet) several more
lines
(normal stuff for packet) of useful
notes
(normal stuff for packet) and
blah-blah-blah
I was thinking along the lines of sending a UDP message to an invalid MAC
address, or to myself or something like that; ignored by all hosts and
certainly not sent out to the world.
Ideally it would just show up as the message without a lot of dissection
words, and without selecting it and having to select it and look at the
dissected area.
Does anyone know of a protocol I can use in this way? It seems to me I
remember something like this, but Ill be darned if I can find it now. I
can mis-use something - send a DNS query to "starting doing
something-or-other" but the info line will have other cruft on it ("standard
query A starting doing something-or-other").
- Al Weiner -
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