Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] ipv6 address help

[Brian Oleksa <oleksab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stig

I will stop using format_vaule....

How do you actually get the ipv6 address..??

How do you use this function..??
void tvb_get_ipv6(tvbuff_t*, gint offset, struct e_in6_addr *addr);

For ipv4.. I did this:
guint32 addr;
addr = tvb_get_ipv4(tvb,offset);

Thanks,
Brian



Stig Bjørlykke wrote:
> On 26. jan. 2010, at 20.57, Brian Oleksa wrote:
>
>   
> > I am now trying to do the same for ipv6 addresses (unfortunately.. I do 
> > not have a way to test it)....but I would like to get the code in place.
> >     
>
> Why do you still use the _format_value functions?
>
>
>     { &hf_helen_ipv6,
>       { "IPv6 Address", "helen.ipv6",
>         FT_IPv6, BASE_NONE, NULL, 0x0,
>         "Helen IPv6 Address", HFILL }},
>
>
> proto_tree_add_item(helen_sub_tree, hf_helen_ipv6, tvb, offset, 16, FALSE);
>
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>