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

[Tyson Key <tyson.key@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Evan,

Hmm, now that's an interesting dilemma. Couldn't we rename the old dissector to something like "tpncp_old", "tpncpv1", or "tpncp_legacy"? 

That said, it'd probably be a disservice to completely remove a dissector that folks are probably using to dissect "legacy" TPNCP packets in old trace files.

Tyson.

2013/12/18 Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>

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

Thoughts?
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