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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark dissectors implementation with LUA

From: "Robert G. Jakabosky" <bobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 06:04:28 -0700
On Saturday 01, Helge Kruse wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a bit experience with dissector plug-ins written in C++. But I
> would like to evaluate if dissectors could also be written in Lua. I
> don't find an example in the Wireshark source code. Where do I find good
> samples or tutorials to get a glimpse of Lua dissectors?
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua shows links to Lua basics and Wireshark's
> Lua API, but unfortunately it doesn't include dissector examples.

Here is a dissector that I wrote in Lua for the SecondLife UDP protocol:
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LLUDP_Dissector

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Robert G. Jakabosky