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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Adding a protocol under ONC-RPC

From: Andrew Kleinerman <verixnbi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:24:38 -0700
Oops, sorry, that was accidentally sent it the middle of writing,
please disregard.

Andrew

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Kleinerman <verixnbi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My current project is integrating a small protocol into Wireshark for
> analysis and I feel a little out of my depth.  The protocol is sent
> over TCP on a non-standard port and uses the Sun XDR RPC.  I went
> through the step-by-step guide of creating a basic dissector, and
> Wireshark will recognize it as the new protocol.  However, my problem
> is that I cannot call dissect_rpc or dissect_rpc_tcp from my dissector
> (I'm assuming for some good reason) to dissect the RPC.  So I'm
> guessing I have to make the RPC dissector properly see it on a
> different port (is that right?).
>
> I made sure to initialize my protocol as an RPC using:
>
>        rpc_init_prog(proto_foofs, FOO_FS, ett_foo_fs);
>
>        /* Register the procedure tables */
>        rpc_init_proc_table(FOO_HEADER, FOO_VERSION, foo_proc, hf_foo_proc);
>
> Where
>
> proto_foofs:
> static int proto_s4fs_osd = -1;
>