Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pointer in the right direction

[Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <devlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks Jeff, exactly what I needed

Filip

Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
>   
> > we have a messaging framework that uses both UDP and TCP (and a 
> > proprietary binary protocol on top of those).
> > Is there a way for me to write, and contribute, a plugin to wireshark 
> > that would read that protocol and display some useful info to the user 
> > when analyzing the capture file?
> >
> > Could you point me in the right direction such as documentation, current 
> > plugins or examples.
> >     
>
> That's what Wireshark is designed to do and there are literally hundreds 
> of dissectors which goes to show it's not too hard to create new dissectors.
>
> I'd suggest starting with README.developer (in the doc/ directory in the 
> source).  There are lots and lots of examples in 
> epan/dissectors/packet-*.c .
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