Huge thanks to our Platinum Members Endace and LiveAction,
and our Silver Member Veeam, for supporting the Wireshark Foundation and project.

Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Plugin development

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:42:27 -0800 (PST)
>   Bummer. How actively is it being explored?

Not very, right now.

> Or, more to the point, how difficult would it be to implement?

Fairly difficult.  See my recent reply in the thread on Van Jacobson
compressed PPP for *some* of the issues that have to be resolved in
order to support dissection of packets that span frames.