Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RADIUS 2 byte dictionary support

From: Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:38:16 +0000 (UTC)

Stephen Fisher <steve@...> writes:

> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:52:43PM +0100, Robert Saye wrote:
> 
> > My company recently started shipping 2 byte custom dictionaries with 
> > our products. I noticed in the base RADIUS dictionary file that 
> > Wireshark doesn't support this yet '# we do not support 16bit 
> > attribute codes yet'. Is anyone working on this, I don't want to 
> > duplicate any effort, but our customers would like to be able to 
> > decode their pcaps. If no one is working on this actively, do you have 
> > any tips or warnings? I am an experienced developer, but a newbie to 
> > Wireshark. I have my build environment ready, and have been poking 
> > through the code for a few days.
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone working on this.  I haven't worked on the code 
> that reads the RADIUS dictionary files, so perhaps someone else can 
> provide more guidance.
> 
> Steve
> 

You undoubtedly know this, but just for the record:

Handling of 2 byte attributes was added to development Wireshark during January
2009; 

This capability was released as part of Wireshark 1.2.0 in June 2009.

(The comment in radius/dictionary is now incorrect. I'll submit a correction).

Bill Meier