Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Listing of Protocols in Development

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:00:09 +0200
> From: Guy Harris
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:45:40PM +0100, Jason2 wrote:
> 
> > Also, what other protocols are being worked on?
> 
> I don't know, and I suspect nobody knows the complete answer. 
>  There is
> no central list of protocol dissectors being developed; development of
> protocols isn't managed by a central Ethereal developer group,
> dissectors are written and contributed when individuals need 
> a dissector
> or want to write a dissector, and decide to contribute it.  
> Individuals
> on the list might know what they're working on, but they won't
> necessarily know what others are working on - even members of the core
> development team doesn't know that, as far as I know, unless 
> somebody's
> sent a message saying they're working on a particular dissector *and*
> they happen to remember that message.

I once wrote a small perl script that lists all protocols and their
associated protocol fields, you can find it at
	http://home.tiscali.be/olivier.biot/ethereal/
The output is based on [t]ethereal -G and is written in HTML format.

Regards,

Olivier