At 06:32 PM 1/29/01 +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>
>>> 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...
I looked at Andrew' decoder some time ago, and decided to use something
different for Ethereal ...
Perhaps I can look at it again and see what I can do.
>itojun
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