Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-isakmp.c

[Alex Pankratov <ap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:39:54PM -0700, Alex Pankratov wrote:
>
> > For the part of packet-isakmp.c, which deals with
> > dissecting VID payloads, you may want to import VID
> > values from Super FreeS/WAN sources (which has about
> > 20+ entries, freeswan.ca) or from the list that yours
> > truly hosts at
> >
> >   http://www.cipherica.com/libike/files/vendorid.txt
>
>
> "Import" as in "copy into the source", or "import" as in "make the
> ISAKMP dissector get them from a file, and put the interesting VID
> values into the file"?  I'd be inclined to do the latter, although we
> might want to put in some form of wildcarding so we can handle, for
> example, Check Point's VIDs (show some as particular versions, others as
> unknown versions).

Whichever you like better I guess :) I did mean the first option
though, but that's mostly because existing VIDs are hardcoded, so
it would've been a consistent way to 'import' new ones.