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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5324] New dissector for adwin protocols

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:09:41 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5324

--- Comment #11 from Thomas Boehne <TBoehne@xxxxxxxx> 2010-10-25 23:09:34 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> > I know; but unfortunately the protocol does not have a lot more info. The only
> > other thing I could think of is checking if the destination MAC address is in
> > our MAC address range. It is an ugly hack, but the firmware update is usually
> > only used inside LANs and not in routed networks.
> 
> Hmmm, maybe that would be a good solution actually: it's a very strong
> heuristic (at least for the Rest Of Us who will probably never see this
> protocol in the wild).  See especially the latest on wireshark-dev.

The ADwin configuration protocol is very rarely used in routed networks; the
regular ADwin protocol is sometimes used in routed networks. But in that case
one can still force wireshark to decode as ADwin using "Decode as...".

I will create a patch for both protocols and post it here later today.

Regards
Thomas

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