Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark ready for industrial usage

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 26, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Thomas Wiens <th.wiens@xxxxxx> wrote:

> But the Profinet dissector is still a plugin, I don't know if it's
> possible to write a tap (which I think is needed) for a dissector which
> comes as a plugin.

Not only is it possible, it's even possible for a statistics tap to be a plugin.  It'll even work with both Wireshark and TShark if you can use any of the APIs provided to construct statistics tables (rather than writing your own GUI code).