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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can't compile Ethereal from current CVS on Windows.

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From: Tomas Kukosa <tomas.kukosa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 13:37:35 +0200
Martin Regner wrote:
> 
> Guy Harris wrote:
> >On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 3:12 PM, Andreas Sikkema wrote:
> >> Well, what I meant to say was, why add interfaces to such high-level
> >> protocols to the plugin interface?
> >
> >Presumably Tomas Kukosa (who contributed the patch to add them) will
> >respond at some point, indicating why he wanted them.
> 
> I think I know why he wants them. Tomas has made it possible to dissect NonStandardParameter stuff (NonStandardIdentifier/h221NonStandard respectivelly NonStandardIdentifier/object) from a plugin.
> 
> Then it might be useful to use e.g. dissect_h225_TransportAddress from the plugin.

Yes. You are right.
 Tom