Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] filters for ethereal?

[Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Hall wrote:
> 
> Does anyone else think this is a good idea, or should we just put all the
> protocols in ethereal in C. Don't get me wrong, I think all the major
> protocols that other products support should be supported in ethereal with
> c code, but this would be a feature no one else has.
> 

Yes, I also think that this is a good idea. I already have some code
that parses and converts some user protocols defined in a text file 
into pseudo filters and automatic decoding routines. But that code contains
some proprietary parts and is not really 64 bits clean. 
This is why I had not included it in ethereal.

But this is a good idea to allow non C programmers to decode
higher-level or proprietary protocols (so not commonly used) without modifying
ethereal code.

Laurent.

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