Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New dissector

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:39:50 +0100
On Friday 11 Apr 2003 5:08 pm, philippe.vivarelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to add a dissector to ethereal, for a low level protocol (just like
> IP, ARP, etc..)
>
> I just started to look at the documentation, and I don't really understand
> why there are builtin protocol dissectors and plugin dissectors.
>
> Could someone tell me if a plugin can works for a low level protocol ?

Yes. I have down just that.

The advantage of a plugin is that you don't need to recompile the whole 
Ethereal  package every time, and you can distribute the plugin to those that 
need it and tell them to download Ethereal from the web site.

-- 
Richard Urwin