Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Plugins working?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:29:23 -0800 (PST)
> G'day,
> I have just compiled up version 0.8.15 on a Solaris 2.8 machine and when I 
> select plugins from the tools menu, there doesn't seem to be any plugins 
> listed.

That's because new-style plugins - which both the Gryphon and MGCP
plugins are - aren't shown in that menu.

> I ran a truss over the executable and it seems to be loading the gryphon.so 
> and mgcp.so files.  I even added debugs to the plugins.c code to see if it is 
> opening the files and inserting them correctly.  It is doing that.  Even 
> invoking reg_handoff for each of the plugins, but there is still nothing in 
> the plugins menu option.

Go to the "Edit->Protocols" menu item; if it shows "gryphon" and "mgcp"
in the list of protocols in the "Decoding" tab, it's loaded the Gryphon
and MGCP dissectors.