Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Better randpkt testing

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a Buildbot step that runs tethereal on each output type
generated by randpkt (arp, dns, eth, fddi, icmp, ip, llc, nbns, syslog,
tcp, tr, udp, bvlc, ncp2222, giop, bgp, and tds).  This is great for
testing the few protocols in randpkt's type list, but not so great for
testing all of the other protocols we support.

In an effort to improve on this, I've added a section to the test script
that does the following:

LIST=`./tethereal -G decodes | grep ^tcp.port | cut -f3`
for PROTO in $LIST; do
    ./randpkt -t bgp $OUTFILE
    ./tethereal -nVr $OUTFILE -d tcp.port==179,$PROTO
done

There's a similar section for UDP-based protocols, using randpkt's DNS
output type.

The goal is to explicitly test as many dissectors as possible.  Is there
a better way to do this?