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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] text2pcap_ several protocols file

From: Reinhard Speyerer <rspmn@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:48:14 +0200
Jeff Morriss wrote:
> 
> SOLTANI FATEN wrote:
>> Hi all, 
>> I have a text file which contains a MTP3 frames MTP3. To convert this
>> file into a pcap file and to decode it thereafter by Wireshark, I used:
>> "text2pcap -l 141 inputFile.txt outputFile.pcap". 
>> But now I wish to decode a file which contains both of IP and MTP3
>> frames. How can I do that. 
>> Thanks for any Idea
> 
> You can't do that with PCAP files.
> 

Using Lua it is possible to circumvent the single DLT restriction of PCAP files
to a certain degree by prefixing each message with e.g. a single byte message
type and call the appropriate dissector based on the message type like this:

do
  rlsmon_proto = Proto("rlsmon","rlsmon","rlsmon Protocol")
  function rlsmon_proto.init()
    local function rrcdissector(name)
      local disname = string.gsub(string.lower(name), "[ -]", ".")
      return { protocol = name, dissector = Dissector.get(disname) }
    end
    rlsmon = {
      [0]  = rrcdissector("RRC DL-DCCH"),
      [1]  = rrcdissector("RRC UL-DCCH"),
      [2]  = rrcdissector("RRC DL-CCCH"),
      [3]  = rrcdissector("RRC UL-CCCH"),
    }
  end
  function rlsmon_proto.dissector(buffer,pinfo,tree)
    local msgtype = buffer(0,1):uint()
    local payload = buffer(1):tvb()
    pinfo.cols.protocol = rlsmon[msgtype].protocol
    rlsmon[msgtype].dissector:call(payload,pinfo,tree)
  end
  local wtap_encap_table = DissectorTable.get("wtap_encap")
  wtap_encap_table:add(wtap.USER1, rlsmon_proto)
end

Maybe a similar scheme can also be applied to solve the problem above.

Regards,
Reinhard