Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New dissector...

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:33:38AM +0200, martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The only dissectors I could find that have configurable port numbers and
> doesn't register handoff routine and similar in a correct way is distcc

...which requires you to save the new port number, exit, and re-start
Ethereal in order to get the new port number.  I.e., it's buggy.

> and smtp dissectors.

That has the same problem, although its handoff routine *could* be
made the routine to call if the preference changes, to fix it.