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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] query regarding tables in wireshark

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:26:14 -0800
On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Rahul Rohit <rahul.rohit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> can we define tables on our own

Only if you modify the source code.

> or should we always use pre-defined tables e.g. In sctp we have sctp.port and sctp.ppi tables , are we bound to  use these 2 tables only for sctp or we may also create our own table for sctp ??

You can do so only if you modify the SCTP dissector source code and recompile Wireshark.