Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] LDP dissector

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:45:00 +1000
At 12:02 PM 11/28/00 +0000, Armenio Pinto (EST) wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>     I'm trying to code an LDP dissector for Ethereal. LDP uses UDP and TCP
>packets, not raw ones. Can this be done with a dissector? As far as I read
>in README.developer, dissectors can only access raw packets. Thanks in
>advance.

There are no problems in accessing UDP datagrams and TCP segments within a
dissector, see packet-tftp.c and packet-pop.c.

However, what is LDP, apart from the Linux Documentation Project?

>Armenio Pinto - PT Inovacao SA, Portugal
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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