Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] DIS protocol dissector

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:00:12PM -0500, Phongsak wrote:
> I found an email in the mailing ilist archieve about the DIS dissector,
> and I found that it has been written by Guy,

The mail was written by me, or a DIS dissector was written by me?

If you found an e-mail claiming that I'd written a DIS dissector, I'd
like the URL in the archive for that message, because *I* sure as hell
don't remember writing a DIS dissector.

> but I don't see it in the CVS.

You're not seeing a DIS dissector because there isn't one to see.

> Anyway, our goal is not just sniffing the DIS protocol, but also
> converting captured DIS packets to another form of a protocol.  Is it
> possible to reuse some of the ethereal codes to create a packet conversion
> software?

Neither Ethereal's framework for writing dissectors, nor its dissectors,
are designed for that.  It might be possible to reuse the code, but
you'd be entirely on your own if you chose to do that.