Re: RFE: new column for UI: conversation number

Kalk, Christian wrote:
> Suggestion:
> Introduce a feature called the conversation ID.
> You could then filter on multiple conversation IDs (will work like
> follow TCP-conversation, but instead of using TCP ports and IPs it will
> work more natively through the conversation number -> conversation == 3
> || conversation == 9) and you could show it as a new column on the UI.
>   
I've thought about exactly the same thing before.

The problem is (and I'm probably not alone with this): The applications 
I work with uses several layers, which TCP is only one of and I'm 
usually interested of the conversations on other layers as well.

You could think about such a "conversation" for UDP and a lot of other 
(higher level) protocols as well.

I would like to have a more general mechanism, not only for TCP, but 
after thinking about it for a while, I couldn't find a really good way 
to display this in a convenient and intuitive way :-(
> Benefit:
> - Upgrade the "follow TCP stream" from using Sockets to conversation ID
> - with the new column, directly see when clients open sessions, ask one
> thing, close the session and do that 20 times by raising conversation
> ID.
>
> You like it? How to proceed?
>   
You may add this to the WishList, so at least it won't get lost for now.

Regards, ULFL