Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Getting Ethereal to dissect a packet as another type

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:59:02 +0200
Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been thinking that it would be useful if we could right click on a
> tree item in the tree view pane and be able to require that the packet be
> dissected as a different protocol.

Yes, I already mentioned that but this requires some changes in the way
protocols are registered (we have to save the dissect routine address in
the protocol registration fields). This was I intended to do, but I was 
waiting a little after seeing some other good things in some mails from
Guy. 
 
> It would mainly be for the un-decoded data portion, but might also be used
> when Ethereal has made a mistake about how to dissect a packet.

This could be mainly for the undecoded data portion since one can disable
a particular protocol and then apply another one on the undecoded part. This 
was one of my reasons for adding the "Edit:protocols" feature.

I don't know if Guy or Gilbert is working on protocol registration but 
I may work on that in the future.

Laurent.

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