Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug ugly protocol graph

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> I wrote a script (attached) that converts the output of "tethereal -G
> decodes" into a Graphviz graph.  The final output can be found at
> http://www.ethereal.com/~gerald/big-ugly-protocol-graph.png .  With a
> bit of tweaking, we _might_ be able to turn this into a protocol poster.

One problem is that it doesn't catch cases where dissector A explicitly 
calls dissector B, e.g. with "find_dissector()" and "call_dissector()". 
 We could add a protocol ID number argument to "find_dissector()", and 
have "find_dissector()" build a table of protocols and subdissectors, 
for that.

It also doesn't handle heuristic dissectors - "tethereal -G" would need 
to dump the heuristic dissector tables as well.