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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pointer in the right direction

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:31:20 -0500


Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
we have a messaging framework that uses both UDP and TCP (and a proprietary binary protocol on top of those). Is there a way for me to write, and contribute, a plugin to wireshark that would read that protocol and display some useful info to the user when analyzing the capture file?

Could you point me in the right direction such as documentation, current plugins or examples.

That's what Wireshark is designed to do and there are literally hundreds of dissectors which goes to show it's not too hard to create new dissectors.

I'd suggest starting with README.developer (in the doc/ directory in the source). There are lots and lots of examples in epan/dissectors/packet-*.c .