Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] plugins specifications

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:56:27 -0800
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:25:41AM +0100, BEDIN Thierry OCISI wrote:
> Where can I find the pecifications for developping plugins ?

(That's actually more of an "ethereal-dev" question.)

Plugins - or, at they're arguably better call, "plugin dissectors" - are
just Ethereal protocol dissectors built as dynamically-loaded modules
rather than being built as part of the Ethereal executable image.

If you're not familiar with how to write protocol dissectors, read the
"README.developer" and "README.tvbuff" files in the "doc" subdirectory
of the Ethereal source code.

Then read "README.plugins", in the same directory, for details on
writing plugin dissectors.