Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] patch for packet-llc.c

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 6:00 AM, Daniel Lundqvist wrote:

> Here is a patch to allow dissectors to match, or what it's called, on 
> llc.oui.

Is this for protocols where only the OUI matters - i.e., all SNAP 
packets with that OUI are to be dissected with the same dissector, 
regardless of the protocol ID - or is it for OUIs that packet-llc.c 
doesn't support, so that the dissector would then have to get the 
protocol ID field and have its own dissector tables for that?

If it's for the latter, perhaps we should, instead, have a routine 
exported by the LLC dissector, to let a subdissector register a 
dissector table, given an OUI and dissector table name, and have the 
LLC dissector look up the dissector table for the OUI and, if it finds 
one, look up the PID in that dissector table.