On Wednesday 02, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> Getting started writing a dissector plugin in lua, I found the examples
> on the wiki to be rather esoteric. Only having previously written a
> plugin in C gave me any idea where to start.
>
> Is there any interest in including a more "ordinary" dissector example
> on the wiki, or with the wireshark install for that matter?
>
> Here is a working example, however I've no idea if it is best-practice
> implementation...
Here is a Lua dissector that I wrote, it could be used as another example.
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LLUDP_Dissector
It is released under the BSD license.
Also for people that want to make Lua dissectors may want to checkout this
patch that I submitted:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5575
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Robert G. Jakabosky
