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Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Need to associate a plugin with an encapsulation type code

From: Gil Berglass <berglass@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:55:09 -0400
I have software-generated "capture" files containing data packets for an experimental protocol. Each packet has a libpcap header with 155 (one of the "Reserved for Private Use" codes) in the network field. I have built a dissector for this protocol that I would like to check out, but I don't know how to get Wireshark to invoke my dissector when it sees this network code in the file (there's no "live" data). Is there something I need to put into my dissector source? Is there something I need to put into one of the plugin makefiles? My system is Red Hat Linux.

Thanks,

     Gil Berglass