[Ethereal-dev] Adding annotations to a capture ...

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Something that would be useful when trying to teach protocols, like 
TCP/IP, X.25, etc, is to be able to hand people a capture file, have 
them open the capture file in Ethereal, and have interesting packets and 
or fields annotated.

It would be real useful if these annotations could be displayed by 
Ethereal, and users could display them or not, as they saw fit.

One way to achieve this would be to extend the capture file format to 
include, for each frame, some extra info at the end. This extra info 
would be a list of annotations:

  0 - For whole frame
  1 - for field 1
  2 - for field 2
  ...

Any comments?

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