[Wireshark-dev] Reordering capture files

2012-09-17 Thread Martin Mathieson
Hi, I work with log files that are created from multiple sources, and although the timestamps are in good synchronisation, they are often written to the log file slightly out of order (up to a few milliseconds). editcap -S supports rewriting the timestamps to be in strict chronological order

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reordering capture files

2012-09-17 Thread James Howard Young
Hello Martin, I've used mergecap to do this. It's a bit of a hacky solution but I used to split the original out-or-order packets out to separate 1 packet trace files. I then used mergecap's default chronological merging behavior to piece the sections back into a single file. The problem with

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reordering capture files

2012-09-17 Thread Martin Mathieson
I think I will write a separate wiretap console app (tonight, if I get carried away). My log files tend to be long (100s MB), so I don't think a script such as yours would work well for me. Ultimately it would be good to have this functionality in (probably) editcap, and if there is demand, make

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Disabling a dissector doesn't seem to quite work.

2012-09-17 Thread Jeff Morriss
Bill Meier wrote: On 9/15/2012 4:35 PM, Evan Huus wrote: The obvious solution for now is to remove the comments that are getting falsely picked up as function definitions, but the better fix is to the make-dissector-reg scripts. Is it valid for there to be two register functions in a file, or

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Disabling a dissector doesn't seem to quite work.

2012-09-17 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:39:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: On Sep 16, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Joerg Mayer jma...@loplof.de wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 03:44:59PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: My understanding of dissectors registering to port 0 was simply a method for allowing Decode As to

[Wireshark-dev] What severity should be shown for multiple expert infos in a packet ?

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Lum
I searched and couldn't find anything on multiple expert infos. What severity level is supposed to be shown in the 'expert' column when there is more than one expert info in a packet? This An optional Expert Info Severity packet list column is available (since SVN 22387 → 0.99.7), that

Re: [Wireshark-dev] What severity should be shown for multiple expert infos in a packet ?

2012-09-17 Thread Guy Harris
On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Michael Lum michael@starsolutions.com wrote: I searched and couldn't find anything on multiple expert infos. What severity level is supposed to be shown in the 'expert' column when there is more than one expert info in a packet? Probably the highest