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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] dissecting data portion of IP

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:42:32 -0700

On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:

Better yet, add your protocol's abbrevation and decimal number toward
the end of epan/ipproto.h and call dissector_add("ip.proto",
IP_PROTO_xxx, myprotocol_handle).

...if he wants to contribute the dissector.

If not, it's probably more convenient to define IP_PROTO_xxx in his dissector, rather than modifying epan/ipproto.h.