Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal - IDL - Corba

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 07:36:30 +0900
At 01:41 PM 10/5/00 -0500, Frank Singleton wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am not sure if this has been suggested before but ...
>
>With a lot of protocols using Corba/IIOP etc.. why
>not have a generic IDL engine/dissector as part of 
>ethereal .

Some work has been done on this among the Samba team ... I may follow this up.

>This way, we could  feed in the IDL definition
>and somehow create the appropriate dissector, or parts
>thereof.
>
>eg: IDL->ethereal_dissector compiler ??
>
>Comments ??
>
>Cheers / Frank..
>
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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