Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Can I force data into a dissector from below ?

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From: "Michael Lum" <mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:01:27 -0800
It runs on TCP and under BSSAP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:22 PM
> To: mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ethereal
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can I force data into a dissector from below
> ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:32 AM, Michael Lum wrote:
> 
> > The company I work for has a proprietary protocol used to carry
> > SCCP traffic over IP.  I have a dissector for it but don't want
> > to check-it in because it is proprietary and no one else would
> > want it.
> >
> > Is there a way I can write a plugin that will attach to TCP
> > dissect and then force the data into the BSSAP dissector.
> 
> So where does your protocol fit in the protocol stack?  Does it run 
> atop BSSAP?  Or does BSSAP run atop your protocol?  Or is there some 
> other layering?