Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can we decode hex dumps?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
> Provide a WTAP_ENCAP_* type for every protocol, and have every
> protocol register themselves with the "wtap_encap" dissector.
> In your example, wiretap would return encapsulation type
> WTAP_ENCAP_RSVP, and the rsvp dissector would have
> registered itself with the wtap_encap dissector table.

...and make sure your dissector doesn't need to look at any of the
information stored in "*pinfo" by other dissectors, e.g. the source or
destination IP address or TCP/UDP source or destination port numbers.