Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal and PPP (as in, the protocol, not t

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From: andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:31:26 +0200
> > 4. I need some assistance creating a whole new protocol decoder.

> See the README.developer and README.tvbuff files in the "doc" directory
> of the Ethereal source; if you'll be making the dissector a plugin
> dissector rather than one compiled into Ethereal, see also
> README.tvbuff.

Since the Ethereal executables are getting quite fat ( 0.9.5 is over 
7 megabytes for both), shouldn't we start thinking about recommending 
the developers of new protocols to start creating plugins?

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Andreas Sikkema
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