Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Clear warnings patch.

[Tomislav Vujec <Tomislav.Vujec@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> [arguments]

Not only that I accept your arguments, you provided so much information,
that I am now capable of defending it myself. People are usually
avoiding usage of allready written code to much, so I am used to defend
that point. But in this case you're right. Also, desire is not to build
a SNMP agent (at least for now :-) but protocol analyser. We don't need
some agent features, but we certanly want to cope with mailformed or
not-yet-supported packets. 

> I guess I'm loath to use external libraries to do packet dissection
> work, as that removes some of the work of dissection from our control -
> we depend on what the library in question can do.
> 
> SNACC *might* also be adaptable into something that takes an ASN.1
> description of a packet's syntax and emits an Ethereal dissector,
> although I'm not sure yet whether it'd allow us to give the dissector
> *semantic* knowledge (e.g., knowing that a particular field should be
> displayed with "val_to_str()", and to specify the value-to-string
> mapping table) - that's a potential problem with stuff that generates
> dissectors from packet syntax descriptions, e.g. something to take Sun's
> XDR/RPC description language, as accepted by "rpcgen", or Richard's
> stuff to parse SMB descriptions.

Thanks. I will spend more time reading archives of ethereal-dev, not to
let it asking old questions again. There is a place for developer
faq/info/tutorial. Is anybody working on such a thing?

Regards,
Tomislav