Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] displaying binary data

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> Erwin Rol said:
>  
>
> > I have to display some (512 byte) binary data that has no structure, the
> > byte_stream just displays the first few bytes. Is there some standard
> > way to display binary data in a way that it is easy to see what the
> > address (1-512) and value is ?
> >    
>
> No.
>
> You could use "proto_tree_add_text()" or "proto_tree_add_bytes_format()"
> to put items into the protocol tree in a format such as
>
>    0: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
>    16: XX XX XX XX
>
> or something such as that.
>
>
>  
Wasn't there a protocol dissector named "data"?

Or was it only available for some protocols I used to work with, like 
DCE/RPC?

Anyway, should we provide such a common "unknown data" dissector?

Regards, ULFL