Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] General "Noob" Questions
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:23:05 -0700
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 05:20:41PM -0500, Shawn Mayer wrote:

> I am currently endeavoring to modify/create a Wireshark dissector. I 
> am going to develop on Windows. I have followed the instructions at 
> http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html 
> successfully. My questions are: where do I go from here?

Is there a particular protocol/dissector you're interested in working on 
or creating?

If you're starting a new dissector for a protocol that Wireshark doesn't 
already support, try copying the sample code from the README.developer 
file in the doc directory of the Wireshark source tree.  Also look at 
other protocol dissectorsw already in Wireshark and feel free to 
liberaly copy as long as your code is GPL too :).

> I apologize for these stupid questions, and the ones I will 
> undoubtedly ask when I actually start coding.

Don't worry about it.


Steve