Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Add tapping to README.developer Section 1.2 Skeleton?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:14:15 -0700
Mike Duigou wrote:
I recently figured out how to add tapping to a dissector after reading the README.tapping instructions (lines 28-55). Pretty simple stuff and it seems that every dissector should do this.
"Tapping" isn't a generic concept - for any particular dissector, you'd have to figure out what information to supply. For some protocols, supplying the information from the protocol header would be the right answer, but if there's more than a fixed-length header with a fixed set of fields, you'd have to decide which, if any (or all) of the information from the protocol should be supplied to the tap.