Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Tapping

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:52:34 +0100, Luis Monge <monge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I'm kind a new to ethereal and I'm trying to discover it's capabilities and
> see if it does the work I need and, at the same time, if I can contribute to
> the community.
> 
> 1st question
> Is it possible to write a tapping for an existing protocol without making
> any changes on the source code (Assuming that the protocol doesn't have a
> tap device installed on it.)?
No

> 
> 2nd question
> This may be kind of a dumb question but is it possible to call a dissectorY
> from a tap for dissectorX? If so, how?
No