Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Registering Dissectors

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From: LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:50:26 +0200
On 10/25/05, Becker, Thomas J (ISD, IT) <tom.becker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have upgraded Ethereal to V 0.10.12 and WinPcap 3.1 on Windows XP with
> SP1. Every time I start Ethereal I get a messages stating it is now
> registering dissectors. After that every thing proceed normally. Is this
> normal behavior? Why must it register the dissectors every time?

It will register the dissectors every time at startup, so that they
can be used, this has nothing to do with the Windows Registry (that
fortunatelly ethereal doesn't use).

BTW the latest release is 0.10.13.

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