Re: [Ethereal-dev] Packet comparison

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Kai.Kang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I would like to be able to compare captured packets on Ethereal. For
> example, by right clicking the selected packet, the function to make
> comparison with some other packet will be supplied. Comparison might
> base on text checking inside different message fields.

Not all fields are text.

What would the result of the comparison be?  "Packets are identical"  
vs. "packets differ in field X" vs. "packets differ in fields X, and Z"?

How would you specify the two packets to compare?