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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Question on Decoding packet with inserted proprietary head

From: "Small, James" <JSmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:12:03 -0400
> > Anyway, could be a useful Wireshark feature - if you agree let me
know
> > and I'll put it on the wish list.
> 
> What would be nice would be a language to describe a packet format and
> an interpreter for the language, so that a non-programmer could add a
> dissector for simpler protocols.  Even if you just know that there's a
> 34-byte header, and don't know its contents, you could describe the
> header as a 34-byte opaque blob.

Guy, that sounds like an excellent idea.  Would you like me to file the
request?

--Jim