Right. Feel free to disregard my previous e-mail, then. :)

Sorry for the inconvenience/false hope,

Tyson.

On 11 August 2011 19:24, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Tyson Key wrote:
>
> > Whilst no-one's looking into implementing support for attaching comments
> to packets (as far as I'm aware); someone recently wrote a patch to enable
> reading comments from pcap-ng/NTAR files, and attached it to bug #6229.
>
> Actually, that bug sounds more like "if a packet has a comment attached to
> it, Wireshark won't even read the packet data correctly"; the fix doesn't
> cause Wireshark to process the comment, it just causes it not to screw up if
> a packet *has* a comment.  I.e., we need to fix this before we even consider
> allowing comments to be added to packets, and should backport the fix to the
> 1.6 and 1.4 branches (that might still leave older versions of Wireshark
> incapable of reading pcap-ng files with comments attached to them).
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