Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Thoughts on disabling an old dissector

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:33:00PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
> This was originally filed as bug 9569. The situation is sufficiently
> unusual that I really don't know what the best solution is, so I
> figured I'd ask for general comments from the list. The company who
> created and used the TPNCP protocol (and submitted the packet-tpncp.c
> dissector) wants to reuse that name for a new, different protocol and
> are asking us to disable the old dissector to avoid conflicts. The bug
> has more detail.
> 
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9569

I just added the following to the bug:
"""
My preferred solution would be to keep the old protocol as version 1,
add the new protocol as version 2 into the same dissector and add a
preference to select which  version to use (with a default of 2). It
doesn't have to be 1 or 2 of course.
"""

Ciao
    Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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