Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] plugins support

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From: Olivier Abad <abad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:35:29 +0100
On lun, nov 08, 1999 at 02:23:18 -0600, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> If we can decide on how to handle more dynamic ways of dissectors
> calling other dissectors, then a plugin could register the fact that
> it needs to be called for a certain situation (UDP port, TCP port,
> etc.), and the protocol decoding would proceed smoothly.

This could be easily done in the "proto_init" function of the plugin.

> How is your private protocol detected? Via UDP or TCP port, or is it
> at some other layer?

Via TCP port. I use a few private protocols over TCP, LAPB or X.25.

Olivier
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