Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] help for a 802.15.4 dissector
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From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:24:30 -0800
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:56PM +0100, Jan Kokott wrote:

> as it seems, no one started a dissector for ZigBee Packages. I am 
> still building up my compiler and environment, to accept and compile 
> .nmake files. As far as I understand it, the libpcap/winpcap can??t 
> read 802.15.4 data-streams. With one of the proprietary Sniffers I 
> have some Dumps, which I saved to disk.Now I am trying to write a 
> dissector for it.
> 
> Is there anything else in addition to the skeleton body from the 
> README.developer that could help building a dissector for the Phy and 
> Mac Layers of 802.15.4 ? I am kind of new to the C Development but 
> have to do this work for my university.

Are you trying to extend Wireshark to read the proprietary sniffer's 
dump format and/or write a dissector for this data as already captured?


Steve