Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8616] Update Skinny Dissection Code (CM7.1 + / SPCP Messag
Comment # 7
on bug 8616
from Diederik de Groot
(In reply to comment #4)
> I have no idea how to do that in a useful way: We only have a single
> dissector using that protocol, so creating a language specifically for looks
> like overkill to me. I write that assuming that you currently write your
> code in C also (or something similar) and not in some description language.
>
> Looking at your web pages I noticed some errors and some text that can be at
> least misunderstood:
> - The protocol name is "Skinny *Client* Control Protocol" (unless Cisco
> changed the name after protocol spec 3.0.4).
> - There is a completely different protocol (apart from the fact that it is
> also used in the telephony world) that is also named SCCP (and that's why I
> renamed the initial dissctor from packet-sccp.c to packet-skinny.c):
> "Signalling Connection Control Part" aka ITU Q.713 and is part of SS7. If
> you do not know that already reading the documentation will give you a wrong
> impression.
Hi Joerg,
Thanks for pointing this out to me and giving me the incentive, to correct this
in our documentation (doing that right now). It was a rooky mistake i made some
time ago.
I would not want to create a new language, but build upon the ones that are
already there (XDR / pidl / xml), that would make the adoptation in other
projects much easier, and the heavy lifting has already been done by others
mostly. Code generation from an IDL could make live a little easier for all
Skinny projects (chan-sccp-b / Xivo / chan_skinny / wireshark dissector).
Regards,
Diederik
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