Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Adding multiple ports for dissector

[jdolly@xxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Steve.

I have implemented the changes and it works as expected.

--Sunny

On Oct 29, 2008 2:49pm, Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:38:24PM -0700, jdolly@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > I have a packet dissector implemented on a single TCP Port (user
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> > I would like to add multiple ports to this dissector.
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> > Looks like I have to use "prefs_register_range_preference" function in
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> Yup.
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> > What are the other changes that need to be made to my packet dissector
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> Take a look at epan/dissectors/packet-xml.c for an example.
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> packet-http.c also has it, but it looks a bit more complicated.
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> Basically, you're registering a range that is stored in a string, then
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> you copy it with range_copy() and do a range_foreach() call to operate
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> on the copy of the list of ports and have it call (in xml's case)
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> range_add_xml_tcp_callback() for each port in the range list.
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> range_add_xml_tcp_callback() is a one line function that does a
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> dissector_add() on each tcp port it is handed.
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> Steve
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