Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Dissector for the Session Announcement Protocol (SAP)

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I have added a dissector for the Session Announcement Protocol 
> > (SAP) which is responsible for bringing you the multicast session 
> > advertisements that the sdr program displays.
> 
> Checked in.

Thanks! Thanks also fixing the nits :)

> I also had to rename the Netware SAP dissector to "dissect_ipxsap()" to
> eliminate a complaint about "dissect_sap()" being declared "static" in
> "packet-ipx.c" and not static in "packet.h".  (We should be able to use

Oops, I should have named it something like dissect_msap(). The 
SAP acronym is quite overloaded.

> the stuff Olivier did for dynamically-loaded dissectors for compiled-in
> dissectors, reducing the extent to which "packet.h" has to know about
> every dissector, and allowing the user to specify that protocols on port
> XXX should be dissected as protocol YYY.)

This will make creating RTP/RTCP dissector quite easy. We are using
Ethereal on a protocols course for packet sniffing, and one nice
thing to would have is a RTP/RTCP dissector. Since those two
protocols do not have any well known ports, the user has to help
the dissector. Is the protocol specifying functionality already in
the CVS?

// Heikki