Re: Transport name resolution

[Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>]

On 9/16/2013 4:15 PM, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> > Should we, instead, look the port number up in the "tcp.port" or
> > "udp.port" (or "sctp.port") dissector table and, if it finds a
> > dissector handle, look up the short name of the protocol for that
> > dissector handle and use that?
>
> I think this is more useful, since the dissector short name is typically
> used as the filter prefix. It is just confusing if slightly different
> strings are shown, because they come from some other list/database.

+1
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