On Jul 2, 2018, at 10:34 PM, Mike Morrin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I also played with this concept a few years ago when working with a 
> proprietary aggregation protocol.  I am not sure if I still have my prototype 
> code.  I seem to remember that features such as filtering were easily broken 
> and difficult to fix.
> 
> One idea I had was to NOT give the aggregated packets real packet numbers (in 
> the traditional sense), but give them sub-packet numbers which are displayed 
> as x.y where x is the aggregation packet where the aggregated packet finishes 
> and y is the aggregated sub-packet number.  Note that his scheme should be 
> extensible for sub-packets within sub-packets (x.y.z etc).  

Is there any need to give them packet numbers at all?  The top-level tree items 
can have frame numbers, but the tree items underneath that need not have one.
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