Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Few more RADIUS Attributes as filterable fields

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

LEGO wrote:

> I personally believe that It's about time to make the generation of
> the hf array "automatic" and that most attributes should be taken out
> of the dissector into a Dictionary file (we could use that of
> FreeRadius) that way:
>
> 1) the radius dissector would become a smaller more manageable piece
> of code (I believe 5000 lines of code are way too much for such a
> simple protocol).
>
> and
>
> 2) would allow users to add attributes (using their vendor's private
> radius dictionaries) on their own without having to modify the code.

Yes, as per the comment I put in before the "radius_service_type_vals[]" 
table.  We might use a variant of FreeRadius format, with an additional 
item in each entry giving the field name, unless that name is also 
generated automatically, e.g. by lower-casing all letters in the name, 
and replacing hyphens with underscores.