Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Gripe

[Kevin <kem2@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 11:25 PM, Andrew Feren wrote:

> I think the same is true of protocols.  Getting Ethereal to 
> automatically
> generate code to at least label fields and interpret types correctly 
> would
> be way better than the alternative of looking at the raw hex dump.  
> Doing
> this without recompiling would be great, but not necessary.

This would be a great start and may be all that is needed.  This would 
allow new or custom protocols to be broken out and defined.

In theory, I should be able to build a decode description for my use 
and then pass it to others for their use.

Kevin


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