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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Linux Dissector Example

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:34:23 -0800
warlord wrote:

I don't intend to add new GUI functionality. I intend to hack wireshark
to do work it wasn't intended to do,

One thing Wireshark is intended to do is to dissect protocols, so it's a bit difficult to make it do work it wasn't intended to do by adding a dissector. :-)

What exactly are you trying to get it to do? There might be a more appropriate way of changing it.