On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> 
>> If you do it, please make it agnostic to the file format, or at least easy 
>> to patch for other file formats.  Wireshark supports reading/writing 
>> multiple file formats, some of which also support per-packet comments,
> 
> Which ones other than the current version of Network Monitor format support 
> per-packet comments?

A proprietary one my company uses that we recently added a wiretap reader for 
(and plan to submit a patch for as soon as we're more sure we've got its bugs 
out).
And I've been talking to some folks about adding it for IPFIX files (as well as 
a magic file header).

But I was also thinking some of the other ascii file formats which have things 
like software version and other show command type output could be saved into a 
comment at the top of the file. 

And in some weird ways, any ascii-formatted file formats could in theory be 
commented by a human through a text editor, and as long as they put the comment 
in some common delimited way defined by the wiretap reader for that file type, 
it would allow displaying in wireshark. (Which is kinda a weird thought)

-hadriel
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