Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Writing protocol decode

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:27:02 +0200
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:09:41PM +0000, d ced wrote:
> i would like to write a protocol decode for MMS.

Great.

> Is anobdy working already on it ?

Nobody has posted so far.

> Is there a document or a white paper that explain how to construct a 
> protocol decode for ethereal ? Any guidelines (i'm sure there is ) ????

Download the source package, unpack it and look at the doc/ directory.
README.developer should give you a good idea what needs to be done.
There are more files that you may want to take a short look at, just to
note what's in there and return to them later as needed.
After that you may take a look at some other dissectors (packet-XYZ.c in
the toplevel directory), e.g. tftp.
Then just start coding and if questions come along as you code, just send
them to ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx

 Ciao
    Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.