Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Dissector Generator
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:41:12 -0800
Behdad Forghani wrote:
> I am thinking of developing a notation along with code generator and
> Eclipse integration to specify protocol PDUs and then generate Wireshark
> dissectors automatically, thus reducing the time to hand code dissectors
> and errors. Before, I do that, I wanted to make sure that I am not
> reinventing the wheel. Does such a tool already exist for non ASN.1
> protocol messages?

You might want to take a look at the NetPDL and TSN.1 notations:

    http://www.nbee.org/doku.php?id=netpdl:index
    http://www.protomatics.com/tsn1.html

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