Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] FW: Question about Plugins

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From: "Ihab Hedroj" <hedroj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 06:43:22 -0400
Title: FW: Question about Plugins

I am new to ethereal and I been asked to write a plugin for LDP. I did the following as a starting point:

1- Copied the gryphon plugin to a new directory named ldp
2- Removed most of the code and left only what is written in the README.Developer document
3- Cleaned up the .h file
4- Changed the filter string to tcp.port == 6000
5- Changed all Makfiles*
6- Ran make. It compiled with no problems and generated .la, lo and .o files and the .libs dir.
7- Created the shared file by typing
        > ld -shared -o ldp packet-ldp.o.
8- Copied the .so, .la and ldp files to /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.8.8
9- Started ethereal
10- Enabled the plugin and started the capture process.

Ethereal didn't call my plugin at all in spite of the existence of TCP packets with source and destination ports equal to 6000.

I would really appreciate if you provide me with some help.

regards;
Ihab