Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Megaco plugin

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:56:34 -0800
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Christian Falckenberg wrote:
> since someone asked for a Megaco (RFC3015) plugin more than a year ago, I
> haven't found anything indicating that Ethereal 
> would support this protocol. I have therefore written a few lines of code to
> be used as a plugin (see attached packet-megaco.c). This is very, very
> simple, but it is already enough to show 'MEGACO' in the protocol column and
> the text content of the message. 

I've checked it in as a plugin, with the only change being that it now
registers itself under SCTP (using the H.248 payload protocol ID) as
well as under TCP and UDP).

> I did this only to prove that we don't need a commercial analyzer for
> thousands of dollars for this, and I have no further interest to continue on
> this. You are welcome to take this code, improve it and integrate this into
> the ethereal distribution when acceptable.

I leave it up to others to add more stuff to it.