Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Adding new protocols

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:47:58 -0500
The only problem with the preferences is that you have to not only register your
own dissector, but the offending disector as well.  What about having a 
preferences tab for dissectors in general?  A way to change a dissector even
after it has registered?

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:48:13PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:43:43AM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > Actually, there is another issue here. It would be useful if we could pass
> > information in on the command line (or in the preferences file) saying to
> > associate a particular protocol with a particular port.
> 
> Note that if you add a preferences-file item for it, that item can be
> set from the command line with the "-o" flag.
> 
> This might be one advantage of having protocols register preferences
> that specify a port (or list of ports) to use - implementing a
> user-settable list of ports that way lets you not only change the list
> of ports for protocol XXX from the GUI, it also lets you do it from the
> command line (or by manually editing the preferences file).