Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] Firebird/Interbase dissector, request for comments

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:40:24 -0700

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:45:57PM +0200, M??she Van der Sterre wrote:

> As far as I know this dissector conforms to the usual way things are 
> done with wireshark. But I like to hear about anything I missed, or 
> should have done another way.

With only a quick glance, I noticed some C++ style comments (//) in 
there that need to be changed to C style (/* */).  Could you send an 
updated patch with this fixed and that includes the correction you made 
in a follow-up e-mail to this one on the 16th.

> This dissector currently has all the features the current 
> (packet-ib.c) dissector has, so replacing it right away should not be 
> a problem.

I'm not familar with packet-ib, so excuse my ignorance.  Is there any 
reason that packet-ib couldn't be updated instead of replacing it?  What 
else does your dissector cover that packet-ib didn't?

> I hope to implement the other opcodes soon, most of the work is 
> already done. But I have still to look at ways to generate (correct) 
> packages for some (those not or ralely used by the current firebird 
> package). Extensive testing with invalid packages is also on the todo 
> list.

Great!


Steve