>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:55:33PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
>> > Is there anyone who wouldn't want to quiet down SMB printing by
>> > default unless -v is given?
>>
>> It seems reasonable to me, as tcpdump has traditionally printed one-line
>> summaries for packets - even *with* "-v".
>>
>> I don't know whether anybody out there uses it to do that kind of
>> detailed dissection.
>>
>> There are probably other protocols for which a more detailed dissection
>> might be useful; snoop and Tethereal, by default, print one line for all
>> packets, but have flags that cause them to print out a *very* detailed
>> report on the packet, at all protocol layers. snoop uses "-v", and
>> Tethereal uses "-V"; tcpdump could use either "enough" "-v"s ("-vvvvv"
>> or so), or could use a "-V" flag.
there are many places we use multiple "v"s to indicate "more verbose".
so i'd say it just fine to make SMB decoder to check for variable
vflag's value, not just 0 or non-zero.
i have no knowledge about SMB, so i'd leave the actual work to someone
with more clue about SMB...
itojun
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