Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] EIGRP decoder in ethereal-0.7.9

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:05:42 -0600
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 12:58:22PM -0600, Joe Clarke wrote:
> 
> 
> I have noticed some problems in the eigrp decoder in the latest ethereal.
> Namely, it does not interpret the packet fields correctly.  I have been
> working on a patch to packet-ip.c to fix this, but I'm having trouble with
> the GUI code.  So far I have the header correctly decoded as well as the
> parameter TLV info.  Is there any good explanation of the ethereal GUI
> subroutines so I can plug in tress an subtrees?  Thanks.
> 
> Joe Clarke

ethereal/doc/proto_tree has information on how to use the "logical" tree
subroutines inside each protocol dissector. Ethereal then worries about
converting this logical tree into a GUI tree.

--gilbert