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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using a tap to make a dissector work?

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:02:46 +0100
On 8 mrt 2011, at 16:53, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> Sake Blok wrote:
>> On 8 mrt 2011, at 15:55, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>> This issue is tracked in https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5445 .  There, Guy suggested:
>>> 
>>>> The trick might be to have multiple types of taps, such as ones that produce no
>>>> output, and are allowed to be unconditionally run, and ones that produce
>>>> output, which are not allowed to be unconditionally run.  Dissection will be
>>>> forced on in TShark if one of the latter type of taps is listening, but will
>>>> not be forced on if only the former type of taps is listening.
>>> That sounds similar to (2) above.
>> It does indeed. I checked the bug report. As long as it's kept open until there is a solution, we can skip the discussion here :-)
> 
> Well, except that no progress has been made--discussion out here might change that. :-)

True!

>> In the mean time, should we disable these protocols by default until it has been sorted out? It's a shame to have the buildbots unavailable because of this.
> 
> Except that having the buildbots red might eventually annoy someone enough to fix the underlying problem ;-).  (More seriously: I think test.sh is the last step so they're only missing the other tests in the test suites. Or is something else being missed/lost?)

True again. I thought it also has an effect on the automated builds, but I see that the windows bots have a whole different issue... 
@Gerald, what's with the win-bots?

Sake