Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Dissector design advice needed

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From: "Bryan Miller" <millerb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:45:30 -0800
Guy Harris appears to have written:
> 
> Bryan Miller wrote:
> > All that to say, I am looking for design advice and recommendations 
> > that might help abstract much of the repetition and make it more 
> > manageable.
> 
> If the application's stubs are generated with rpcgen, one recommendation
might
> be to take rpcgen and modify it to generate Ethereal dissector code for the
protocol,
> and use the rpcgen IDL file to generate the dissector.

Being the lazy fellow I am that was one of my first thoughts.  If anyone else
has experience with tweaking rpgen to generate Ethereal code please let me
know.  If I figure it out I'll post to the Wiki as well.

Cheers