Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Calling Non-Standard dissectors from L2TP

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 2:57 AM, Akshitij Malik wrote:

>     I was wondering if it is possible for L2TP to call on a  
> dissector other than the standard dissectors mentioned in  
> proto_reg_handoff_l2tp?

Currently, no, not without modifying the L2TP dissector.

However, there should probably be a dissector table for the L2TPv3  
dissector, so that arbitrary dissectors can register in that table  
with the appropriate protocol number, which would let your dissector  
do so.